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Freeform and 3D Mapping? Are they good bedfellows?
Is it possible in AE CS5 to use the new DigiEffects plugin Freeform to create a 3D landscape that can then have footage 3D Camera mapped to it? I wouldn’t want to have to precomp it ahead of time since this would make the Freeform layer appear as a 2D plane. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
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sorry I’m not sure if I explained myself clearly. I essentially want to do this:
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/3d_camera_projection_2/
but with 3D Camera projecting onto a 3D mesh as opposed to a 2D plane which is actually closer to this:
https://www.3dfluff.com/cameramapping/cameramappingtut.htm
I’m just curious if I would be able to use Freeform to create the mountains in the distance like in the second example. thanks.
-jm -
Yeah you re definitely limited to Z space movement and just a tad bit of X and Y movement but it can be a pretty cool technique. I know they used this technique quite a bit in Avatar when creating the wide shots of the vast terrain:
https://media.fxguide.com/fxguidetv/fxguidetv-ep082.mov
Within the first 15 seconds of this video you can see how WETA (using Nuke) just created a matte painting and then 3D Camera projected that image onto a 3D mesh to give them some realistic 3D paralax by adding a slight 3D camera move to the scene.
haven’t tried it yet but I was just curious if After Effects now, by using Freeform can essentially do the same thing.
-jm
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