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3D Particles
Ive looked through the old posts but to no avail.
I have a scene of a guy sitting at an office desk shot against green. I want to make a tornado of sheets of paper spinning around him. I have the effect down, using particle world with a custom quad polygon and the animation property on twirl. So far so good. But how do I sit my keyed layer in the middle of it, so the paper flys around behind his back? Is this even possible, or am I over reaching (again…).
Any help appreciated.
Simon -
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Simon –
If I remember correctly, both the CC Cylinder and CC Sphere plugins have the option to render the “inside” or “outside” of the effect, meaning that the inside effect would show what’s on the inside/back of the cylinder, and conversely (or would that be concavely?) the outside effect would show the outside/front of the effect.If you simply make two copies of your papers effect, put the cylinder (or sphere if it enhances the realism) effect on both, then make the one behind your layer the inside of the cylinder, and the one in front of your layer the outside, you will have what appears to wrap around your guy at the office desk. It works, although you will have to play with the radius of your cylinder to make it look right – and make sure whatever radius you use is the same for both copies of CC Cylinder. Good luck!
Joe Bourke
Art Director / WMUR-TV -
Hi Simon,
If I understand you correctly, I guess it depends on how you created the tornado of paper.. If you did it the way Andrew Kramer did in his Energy tutorial then I believe that all you have to do is to make your keyed footage a 3-d layer and move it back in z-space so it sits in the middle of your particle twirls.. If you did the tornado of papers in a different way, then I’m sure we’ll need more info to be more specific – that is if the duplicate layer sandwiching the keyed footage doesn’t work for you..–KTFA
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