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After Effects vs. Photoshop
Hello,
Recently I rendered an animation of a mechanical dragon floating across a rocky landscape in 3D Studio Max, a Mask for the whole scene, and a mask for the eyes. Before I rendered the whole scene, I rendered 1 frame, and did the composition I had in mind in Photoshop to get the looks I wanted, all the “masks” named below, are the same (except for the eye one then ), in some cases slightly modified. So this is the layer hiaerchy :
A layer with “Clouds”
A solidcolour layer with the blurred out eye-mask…It creates the glow of the illuminating eyes.
An adjustment layer, controlling brightness and contrast, controlled by the mask, which says what areas to modify, and which not.
A layer with a solid colour, controlled by the mask, to simulate fog.
The scene image I became after rendering.Now, I’m encountering the difficulties underneath, when I try to make the same composition in After Effects, with all frames animated :
1 – I can’t get the “Brightness/Contrast” adjustment layer to be controlled by a mask, just everything gets affected. It really is important that the black part of the mask, does not get affected at all.
2 – I created a yellow solid for the eyes, and used Effects -> Channels -> Set Matte, style = illumation, and I selected the corresponding mask layer.
When I blur the mask layer with the Layer Effects -> Blur -> Gaussian blur, I see it getting blurred, although, the visible yellow solid doesn’t get blurred with it :(…Any help would be greatly appreciated, I’m very new to After Effects !
Koen
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1 Reply
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Hi, it’s quite hard to tell you exactly how to do this just by reading your post! If you send me your original comp from photoshop and your AE comp with some low res proxies I ccan take a look for you if you want?
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