COW Tutorials: After Effects Building a 3D World

[Bill Oneil]

The light effects were done on set. I refer to them as “ballyhoo” lighting in the tutorial. It was just a couple of grips waving the lights back and forth on the talent.

Bill O’Neil

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

[Bill ONeil] “I wanted to show the potential of After Effects 3D. I hope it inspires a few people.”

Inpire?!? I give up!

Is there such a thing as a downgrade to Dreamweaver? 😉

Brilliant and original. I’m curious to know how long it took in post, including creating the stage in PS, to put it all together? And did you use any 3D tracking?

Cheers
Roland Kahlenberg
https://www.broadcastGEMs.com – Adobe After Effects project files
https://www.myspace.com/rorkrgbspace

[Bill Oneil]

Thanks, Roland! I can’t remember all the time I put in on the various tasks but I think it was a couple of weeks altogether.

I shot both year one and year 2 in one day on the green screen stage. We had Talib Kweli just change outfits for year 2.

The Photoshop work to build the individual pieces took a few days. I probably took another day to create pre-rendered clips in After Effects such as the audience layers, and animated light racks.

Building the actual set in AE from all the pieces took the longest amount of time. With all the duplicate set pieces there were around 250 layers. Once the set was constructed and all the appropriate layers parented or “expressioned” to the null layer, it was just a matter of creating the shots from my green screen edit.

This entire world would probably have been easier to do in a 3D program but I have always been too busy or too lazy to really dive into 3D.

Bill O’Neil

[Ryan Brown]

Is there any step by step tutorials that might help in learning how to create this?

Ryan Brown
DowntownBrownEnt.

[Ron Lindeboom]

No, because it involves some rather advanced techniques that if you know them, then you can create what you see in Bill O’Neil’s tutorial. It is an advanced tutorial, not a beginner or even intermediate tutorial. Sorry. This is one you have to work up to.

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

Remember: Burt Bacharach lied. What the world really needs now is an undo button.

[Ryan Brown]

I understand. I guess I was hoping for the videocopilot version on dvd that might take you through the process…I’d rather keep the pipeline within the creative suite rather than having to jump into 3D apps and then back to CS to finish the job…Well I guess we can all wish…maybe someday…

Anyway impressive stuff…

Thanks for your reply Ron…

Ryan Brown
DowntownBrownEnt.