COW Tutorials: After Effects 3D Compositing

[Tomadonna]

Great Tutorial

Thanks Andrew!

[Unique]

wow this is a realy helpfull tutorial..
thanks a lot

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[Andrew Kramer]

Cool!
I’m glad you guys like it.
If something wasn’t covered or overlooked please let me know. I’d be happy to try and help.

Cheers,
Andrew

[Kenny101]

yep, thanks Andrew. This tutorial was great!

[Derrick]

Thanks!

this was a cool turorial. Very very usefull

– Derrick

[Jetle25]

Great Tutorial. Touches on many simple things that happen in 3D. Though I do have one question. What resolution were your png files? I still consider myself a novice with after effects and I’m just building on what i know. Would those files you had to push back in Z space and scale up have to be a pretty high resolution to avoid pixelation? Thanks

[Kenny101]

to answer jetle25’s question…in the included source footage, the PNG’s were 760×560 resolution..they seemed quite high quality to begin with…and its logical that you would need HQ images for them to scale w/o pixelation

[Andrew Kramer]

Good point guys,

Although I have learned a cool thing. High quality is good but perceptual High Quality is better. Even though the files are pushed into Z space the camera still shows them at actual size, so perceptually there isn’t much differnce in quality since they are only be shown at actual size. Now getting to close to the wall can be tricky but AE does a nice job of scaling things when zoomed.

Now as for zooming around if you get to close you will run in to some problems. That is why Depth of Field is a good thing. When object get to close they go out of focus so that you can’t tell it low res.

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Andrew

[Robert Morris]

Also, when you zoom into something like at the end of the tutorial, you can turn on motion blur for the layer and that REALLY helps to obscure any pixelization.

[Andrew Kramer]

excellent point!