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Fit keyed footage to 3D space (shadows)
Hi, I’m trying to set a keyed guy into 3D space in AE with AE lights and shadows.
But it’s kinda hard to get the same angle and position of the camera. The floor is a solid turned 90° and with a ramp on.
His feets are not touching the ground correctly (only his teos do).What should I try? The only thing I came up is to paint a new shadow for the complete sequence just to visually make contact to the ground.
Any ideas?
How would you build it up?Thank you very much!
Dino Muhic – Media Producer
VFX – Motion Graphics – Web-Design – Or just ART
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It’s hard to tell from that still, but would you be able to turn the floor more/less than 90° to match to the physical floor the talent is standing on? Try turning off your key and visually matching the 3D & physical floors.
CS3, FCS2
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Yes. In other words, either the original camera angle was wider than your AE camera angle, and/or the original camera was higher and tilted down more than your AE camera.
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Thanks guys but I tried it all out. Wide and narrow lenses, tilting the floor and positioning the camera but somehow I can’t get the shadows right.
Here’s the raw key footage:
I really would appreciate it, if one of you could just try it out.
Place it into a 3d scene with camera, floor and 3 spotlights in the back, casting and accepting shadows turned on on every layer.I think it’s just plain impossible since it’s just a 2D layer and the toes are not at the same height as the heel….
Dino Muhic – Media Producer
VFX – Motion Graphics – Web-Design – Or just ART
http://www.dinomuhic.com -
I had a moment during renders and I looked into your problem
I put a 600 zoom camera at -600 and the floor even at 90º is more or less acceptable
it’s then at 1044 Y and 1500 in Z but to adjust even more at 80º it comes up to 779 Y
and I think you can sell this (don’t look at the key)
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Thank you Peter!
I’ll try it out immediately!Cheers
Dino Muhic – Media Producer
VFX – Motion Graphics – Web-Design – Or just ART
http://www.dinomuhic.com
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