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After Effects + C4D workflow questions
Hello!
I am trying to figure out a way to animate the screen of an iPhone in C4D. I was thinking of animating the phone and the 3D camera in C4D and using CINEWARE to bring it into After Effects. However, I have not been able to figure out how to isolate the screen using this method. I know there was a greyscale gorilla tutorial from a while back where he outputted a separate screen from C4D, but this workflow seems so linear now that Cineaware exists… there must be a better way no? -
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You can set a compositing tag on the screen and set it to output an object buffer. That can be used as a track matte to isolate the screen from any elements passing in front of it. An external compositing tag can also be applied to the screen which will create a null in After Effects.
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Thanks so much! When I extract the data from c4d it throws that null right in. I may still be doing something wrong as the null always seems to be rotated 90 degrees on the x and 90 degrees on the y… but thanks!
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[Maximilian Williamson] “I know there was a greyscale gorilla tutorial from a while back where he outputted a separate screen from C4D, but this workflow seems so linear now that Cineaware exists… there must be a better way no?”
Just building on Michael’s answer, you do this with two separate CINEWARE layers — one for the image of the phone, another for the screen’s object buffer.
You’ll also want to extract scene data in CINEWARE to get a null that follows the phone.
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Off-topic, but welcome back, Michael!
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Thanks, Walter! It’s really good to be back in my home pasture with the COW.
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When I did this for an iPhone 4, I just created a comp in AE with the iPhone’s dimensions, then rendered it out as animation and brought that into C4D and used it as the color texture on the screen. I am not too familiar with C4D though, so there might be a more efficient way.
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