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buliding a 3D house
So, after watching Andrew Kramer’s 3D room tutorial, I was curious as to the possibilities of building a 3d house.
Obviously it would take a bit more work (ie you’d have to create every wall in PS ad its own layer and then lay them out in AE in a 3D workspace) but it seems like you could use the same basic method and take it a bit further.
I guess I’d create the floor first and then duplicate that layer and turn it into the ceiling. After that, you could just do the math and figure out how big each respective wall would have to be.
After all this was done, I’d create new camera and basically move this camera around through each room.
Check out my crude sketch!
So, do you fore see any snags or got-chya’s? Would this be possible?
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I build a 3D house once:
https://www.jeffandemilee.com/portfolio/video/reasonofthestoneage.html
I’m no longer proud of this piece, haha, it’s one of my first AE pieces. One of the difficulties I ran into in this example is the sides of the house don’t match up to the roof, the angles with pixel aspect ratios screwed me up. So make sure if you design anything you have matching PARs.
Another issue with 2.5D in AE is that you’ll never quite get the corners to match up. You’ll see some artifacts hanging out the side of the house when it spins around.
Lighting was another problem, I don’t think AE handles lights very well in that sometimes they would shine through an object and other times they wouldn’t (there is a setting to control this but it didn’t seem to work right for me))
Those are the only hang-ups I think I had. I would also use more texture and more objects, my video kinda gets boring after a while because there’s nothing there.
Hope that helps!
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The possibilities with this type of thing are pretty much endless. If you really want to take it to the next level, investigate camera projection. I think Andrew did a tutorial, and it’s also in Mark Christiansen’s book “After Effects 7.0 Studio Techniques”. I built a 30 story tower for a client, each floor being the front view each (of 30) locations. You’ll probably find that after it’s all said and done, it’ll look a bit underwhelming, as in “why didn’t you just film it?” I’d suggest planning for something to separate it from all the others before commencng.
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Cool. Thanks guys.
Well, you won’t actually see the outside of the house. You’ll just be floating through these three rooms and a hall way.
I can see how the texture/detail is pretty important. My walls will be pretty detailed.
I’m not sure if I’ll add a light or not. We’ll see.
Aright, just wanted to know if it were possible. you guys were a great help.
Thakns!
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I think it would definitely be possible… although probably more trouble than it’s worth. At a certain point 3D is best accomplished in a 3D program, take it from someone who created an entire 3D facade for a theater in AE =O
Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
Aptos, CA
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