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Creating landscapes in After Effects?
Anyone have experience creating landscapes and environments in After Effects? I read about Gridsurface 4df, but now it’s unavailable as far as I can tell. After seeing this video I really would like to learn the technique. The artist explained it in very little detail, but enough to know it’s all After Effects created stuff:
“Barbecue Mediendesign GmbH – Lexus
Lexus Hybrid Drive – The main goal was to design a almost surreal surrounding in wich two energy Forces that symbolize the Hybrid technology will travel trough. As these two Lightshapes should fly over/inbetween an through different scenes, we decided to build the entire Landscapes in After Effects to have full control with the virtual camera following the lights. Particular was used to build up the Lightshapes and its trails. A custom script enabled the particles to have an natural irratic movement. Shine was used to create Northernlights, transmitting lights through Ice and mainly for the overall color correction and tinting. This ended up in creating a whole flower-field with multiple instances of a single blade of grass and blossom distributed in z-space. The only 3d generated Image is the reveal of the drivetrain and the packshot of the cars. All other Images are truly 2.5 3D Planes Layered in AE.”It’s awesome and while I wouldn’t want to reproduce it in full, I would love to be able to use many of these techniques in different ways and can’t even begin to understand have some of it was done! For example, how can you make that sky or that icicle?
Thanks for any and all input!
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Had to try it myself and, yep, wow, that DOES totally blow. I never pushed the button, I guess. We can thank Mr Gates for insisting Adobe follow closely the Windows user-aggressive interface quidelines. There’s a kind of feedback/feature request folder on adobe’s user forums.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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Um … Bogie? Different thread? 🙂
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Well, maybe this expression will help you along:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/925176
Something I wrote a little while ago that will ‘stick’ a layer to another layer at a random position… Useful for creating grass or trees on a plane. You can use the same pre-comped animated ‘swaying in the wind’ blade of grass over and over again with time-remapping and a small temporalWiggle() to offset the swaying. I’ve also explored trying to create an animated tree using the puppet tool and some expressions:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/933986
Darby Edelen
Lead Designer
Left Coast Digital
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Hello Nick,
all the scenes had a different setups and very individual solutions.
The Sky was sometimes a 360 Panorama that was used with Paul Tuersley wonderful Script “Make Panorama”.
Sometimes it was a Multilayer of cloud-structures.
The Icicles where basically multiple Photos layered in Z-space.
Various blending modes and a lot of displacement where used on this one.
what exactly do you want to know? -
> Re: Whoa, yeah, wrong thread.
Oops, sorry. cutting and pasting too quickly between open tabs.
Still blows.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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