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  • Evolution background color changes

    Posted by Mark Pybus on March 14, 2008 at 2:43 pm

    Hi guys,

    Does anyone know how Andrew pulls off those background color changes in his Evolution trailer?

    I tried duplicating it with colorama, but couldn’t get it just right.

    thanks.

    G5 Dual 1.8, 1.5GB RAM

    Mark Pybus replied 18 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Nate Hanson

    March 14, 2008 at 3:44 pm

    If you click on this link, you can see pictures of his workspace for the Evolution promo:

    https://www.videocopilot.net/blog/?page_id=103

    After looking at it, here is my guess: He appears to have one solid layer in the background and he placed a texture (set to “overlay”) on top of that. If you make your solid very large, and then add a ramp effect to it, so that it starts as blue in one area (where your 3D camera will start) and then slowly turns to green in another area (where your camera will end up), you will get the effect that you see in the promo. The texture will appear to change from blue to green, but really it is a ramp effect applied to the solid behind the texture.

    That may or may not be how he did it, but I tested this method and it works.

    Hope that is helpful,
    Nate

  • Mark Pybus

    March 14, 2008 at 3:55 pm

    Hi Nate,

    That’s basically what I had done – creating a ramp with colorama – but I guess didn’t tweak it enough. I appreciate you posting the link.

    Thanks again.

    G5 Dual 1.8, 1.5GB RAM

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