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Giving back to the Community: Cd jewelbox
Hey folks,
it’s been a while since I’ve contributed, so i thought it would be nice to share something with you guys:
I do quite a lot of low-budget promo’s for CD-releases, and It was my habit to render the CD-packshot out in Cinema 4D.
However, I find After effects much more handy to animate in, since it has such a great timeline…Going back and forth to Cinema 4D, especially when I had to tweak a motion, became so tedious & ime-consuming, so i decided to try to do a pack-shot in AE alone…
Granted: I wouldn’t have any reflections or Fresnell-based transparancy, etc.. But I found that the end-result was surprisingly good…et voila:
My fake 3D jewel case, wich I’m sharing with the COW:
* CC Light Sweep not included 😉
Just edit 3 texture Photoshop files to fit your CD’s artwork, and you’re good to go.
The beaty of this is, that when you drop the Fake CD comp in your timeline and switch the layer to 3D, you have the perfect placeholder: a flat frontal view of your CD that you can animate, spin around etc.
Then, when it’s time to render: just hit the collapse geometry switch, and the CD gets it’s true depth.This works sooo fast! And you can do great 3D animations with 0 budget 😎
PS:
on https://www.vandueren.be/mostiko
you’ll find a few of my commercial if you’d prefer to see it in action.
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14 Replies
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sweet as… cheers Filip
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Nice work!
I did a closed DVD Amray case using Zaxwerks if anyone needs it.
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That’s really great of you, Filip.
Just yesterday I was asked if I could do a CD case for next week. Now I get the morning off 🙂 – not quite, but you’ve saved me a potential headache.
Thanks
Graham
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Cool! I’m definitely checking it out. I do this sort of stuff almost every day now so I have my own 3d cd template in AE set up, but maybe yours is better than mine 🙂
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That’s brilliant mate! Nice one.
Jerry, any chance of the DVD version please?
Cheers
Dave
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btw I have one question: how did you position all the different parts so that they lined up? Is it possible to line up pieces in AE without getting seams in between? I can’t quite tell if it matches perfectly in your cd jewelbox, but right now I’m trying to make a 3d perfume box (just a rectangular box) in AE and no matter what I do, I can’t get the pieces lined up perfectly, even using the exact sizes in pixels and using that to set the coordinates. I still get visible seams. Should i go at it by hand, tweaking the position coordinates behind the decimal point?
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Jerry a copy of the dvd one would be much appreciated shot this way to if possible.
dave@lessevolvedman.com.auCheers.. dave
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Hi Filip,
Just adding to the sharing as I see that many people need a CD cover:
The following project was made with Invigorator Classic and AE 5.5:
https://www.nyc-visual.com/CD_Case.sit
Looks like this :
https://www.nyc-visual.com/CD_Case_2.mov
Enjoy and Salut.
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For a mathematically perfect shape, the Alpha Add mode usually works best. It makes two anti-aliased edges ‘sum’ up to opacity.
In my project, I got around it by using fuzzy shapes for the plastic layers, and aligning by hand.
I just quickly scanned all sides of a CD box and filtered it a bit.
I like the scratches, imperfections and noise in there, makes it look less CG 😉 -
I’ll upload it on Monday. Although it’s not nearly as beautiful as the 2 jewel cases uploaded so far.
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