• Adobe After Effects

  3d/video compositing effects

  Posted by Steve Parker on November 11, 2005 at 4:37 pm

  I was just given a project where I am going to need to composite some 3d effects into a video and am looking for any sort of guidance, suggestions, tutorials, books, or anything else that might help me tackle this. Basically I have this video and I need to composite a 3d orb that flys around the scenes into the video. I have intermediate skills in maya and aftereffects, but have never done anything quite like this before so I could really use some guidance or suggestions. I want this to look as professional as possible. I’m pretty sure I want to do the 3d ball in maya, but I suppose it wouldn’t necessarily have to be done in 3d.

  Thanks for any suggestions!

  Andrei Firtich replied 20 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Andrei Firtich

  November 12, 2005 at 8:29 pm

  When you are rendering the file in maya, render it out at RPF (Rich Pixel Format). When you render in that format then the z-depth is included as well as the RGB channel. This render allows you to use AE 3d filters. Basically what AE’s 3d filters do is allow you to create a 3d composite effect based on your z-depth. For example if you wanted to have an explosion follow your sphere. You could used 3d matte to key frame alpha based on z-depth and then composite your explosion clip behind it. 3d fog pretty much works the same way.
  Sorry I don’t know any resources. Hope this helps 🙂

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