• Adobe After Effects

  Some Help needed about animation

  Posted by Lou Cannizzo on May 1, 2009 at 11:57 pm

  Hi all,

  The one item that I thought would be easy, turns out to be the hardest. I have a boeing 747 traveling across the sky and for some reason, it looks FAKE. Not the composite, or the plane but the traveling of the plane. Now, as far as I know, I thought most 747’s travel slow, in one direction. But, it looks like the plane is coasting along like a good year blimp.
  I modeled the plane in MAYA and as far a animation, I just made 2 keyframes. I at frame 1 and 1 at frame 300. I didn’t want to make the plane “bank” or wouble from side to side because that more common in 2 seater planes.
  I would love to hear from everyone. Any help would be very apreciated. I could send a clip so you can see what I mean if it helps.
  Thanks,
  Lou

  Stuart Elith replied 17 years ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Lou Cannizzo

  May 2, 2009 at 4:50 am

  here

  https://www.vimeo.com/4437076
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  David Bogie

  May 2, 2009 at 6:18 pm

  Just try to locate any stock movie of a plane in flight. Stuff that moves does so in relationship to the foreground and background; a visual phenomenon known as parallax. If the camera is tracking the plane, everything moves differently.

  bogiesan
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  Stuart Elith

  May 4, 2009 at 12:56 am

  Also, a bit of compositing work will help it to sit in the scene a lot better… make sure it’s got the right amount of focus (i can’t see if it should be more blurry from the little video, but it does seem very sharp).

  When it crosses the moon, there should be some kind of light wrap or glow spilling across, i think. Although that may not be true when i actually think about WHY it would or wouldn’t happen.. not sure. Even so, it may help sell the shot.

  The other thing I’m thinking is that while the color correction and grading seem to fit the scene, I think the plane should probably be lighter – since it’s up in the sky and quite far away, the shadows wouldn’t be as deep as the very close shrubbery, all the atmosphere and such would make it more washed out, i believe.

  As for the actual motion, i think you’re right that there wouldn’t be any dramatic movement. Perhaps if you rotate it a little as a 3d layer it would help too, because it seems that maybe we’re seeing too much of the bottom of it, feels to me like it should be rotated a bit more.

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