• Adobe After Effects

  Displacement map and shadow

  Posted by Kaleb Coleman on April 15, 2016 at 5:29 am

  Hey guys,

  Going to try and explain this in best way possible…

  I need to have a shadow crawl down a face of an image of a 3D model. I have the z depth pass and was able to use it in Ps to create a styleframe by using the displacement map effect. It took a dark 50% solid and contoured it to the image and the intricate details of the model using the z depth pass. But now I need to make it move…

  Going into Ae, when I tried to apply the same technique that I did in PS, it just doesn’t work the same way. Any advice on what might work?

  Tudor “ted” jelescu replied 10 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Tudor “ted” jelescu

  April 15, 2016 at 8:06 am

  If you have a depth map you can use it to displace in 3d a gray layer using FreeForm Pro (or Free Form V2) and then use AE lights to create and animate the shadow. After this is just a matter of finding the right transfer mode to comp it on top.

  Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
  Senior VFX Artist

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