2D Images in Cinema

[Nolan Scott]

Import your images into the Materials, and in the Attributes apply the Alpha-channel…
Then drag them on to similar sized Planes…
Position those Planes throughout your project…
If necessary apply a “Look At Camera Expression”…

If you like, here is an example, I did as a “Christmas Card” sometime ago…
https://www.nolanscott.co.nz/Gallery/snowglobe.html
(all the trees and the two skating characters are drawn in 2D and imported)

Regards
Nolan

[David Biederbeck]

Feel dumb to not have deducted that process… but normally I would just do this sort of thing in AE.

Thanks again

[David Biederbeck]

Perfect. Thanks for the quick response.

[Antony Buonomo]

Hi Nolan
That’s a very nice piece. I am trying to do something similar re; the cardboard cutout look. However I can’t get the extrude to work. I have a still of a waving flag that I have placed onto a simple plane. I have the alpha working so I am getting a cutout shape, but when I place it into an extrude nurb I get nothing. Even when I make the plane editable. How did you solve it.

Thanks

A

Vertigo Productions
https://www.vertigo.co.uk

[Nolan Scott]

The Extrude NURBS object extrudes a spline to create an object with depth…
A plane object is not suitable for that operation, use Structure / Extrude instead…

Be aware, extruding a plane with an alpha channel applied, still extrudes the plane,
but won’t give that image any depth…

As you can see in that mentioned example:
https://www.nolanscott.co.nz/Gallery/snowglobe.html
The trees are all flat, only the two iceskating characters have a little depths…
Those are drawn with the Create Polygon tool to the size of the PSD image…
Then Extruded / Create Caps checked / and the images applied with Flat Projection…

Regards
Nolan