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How to use z-depth to run two intertwining layers with each other?
Hi guys,
I’ve used a lot of Premiere Pro and Photoshop, but never much after effects. So apologies if this is either very simple or not possible!
I have a rendered animation of a forrest with a separately rendered z-depth pass from 3DS Max. I’m trying to animate a car passing through the forrest. Moving between trees. I would noramlly use a mask in the initial render of the forrest, but I need to do multiple cars taking different paths.
I was hoping I could apply the z depth pass to the forest animation, and a second one to the car. And that would layer the two animations in the process? And then I could change the animation on the car accordingly?
If anyone has any idea that would be great, the only tutorials I can find are to do with adding blur.
Thanks in Advance.
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1 Reply
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Hi, Allan. Try this:
– add your car layers above your forest layer.
-Use your forest depth map as a luma matte for each car.
-Use a levels effect on each depth map to crush the values and isolate the part of the image you want to use as the mask for that car.
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