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3d video cube thingy…
Hi all,
I have some experience with AE but am far from an expert and would appreciate some pointers for a project I am planning…
The Idea…
Bascially I am creating a some content for a promo video for a new website and wish to create a 3d cube object – each face of which will contain video (actually animated web pages).
The cube will turn and spin on its axis in different directions – with some nice acceleration/deccelaration… and each face of the cube will succesively come to fill the screen and a few seconds of footage will be played…
Ok, perhaps not the most sophistacted of effects – but tough enough for me 😉
My plan was…
to create 6 square comps and then build a cube in 3d space and parent the sides so the whole moves as a cube – simply the animating the parent so the children follow…
When I am happy with the animation then ill import the footage into of the 6 each comps (ie each side of the cube), add a few lights, some motion blur and voila!
Hmmm, at least in theory :s
Any tips/gotchas/tutorials would be really appreciated..
Cheers
Nelly
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3 Replies
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Another way for great control and organization is to precomp each side so you can replace and update your footage without running into the risk of resizing,scale,masking etc… Build your “Box” with precomped layers. Have a camera parented to a 3d Null layer and then just animate your Null. Then you could ease the keyframes or Time Remap for time controlling.
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Thats the way i always do it actually..
Precomp the 6 sides using place holders…
then make a new composition, using the null layer to get the general motion right…
then insert the vid files one by one using low quality render..
another tip is to random rotate the video clips +90 +180 -90 0 on the faces as well, so you get a bit of variety, as the clip lands the right way up when the cube rotates and zooms to the screen.
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Thanks a lot guys…
Will be making a start soon so will be back with any problems to pick your collective brains 😉
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