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Image Projected Onto Glass Effect
Hi there. This is my first time posting, and before I do I’d like to thank all you wonderful people for letting us pick your brains for information!
I’d like to create an effect like a hologram of a person projected onto a pane of glass. The effect I’m going for is much like the one used in the movie The Time Machine (2002). It can be seen here at 18 seconds in: https://www.comcast.net/video/the-time-machine/606385160/
I think I figured out how, in theory, to do it, but I’d rather get a knowledgable person’s opinion before I jump into it. I’m specifically having trouble giving depth to a 2d image. I mean, I can easily manipulate the footage to look like a surface, but that surface is only 2D — I’d like it to have a little depth to look more like a thick slab of material.
I’m using AE CS3 by the way.
Thanks again for your time!
Cuitla -
5 Replies
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I get what you’re saying.
Still, if a make a plain old solid (in AE, of course) how can I give that 2D solid some 3D depth?
Thanks,
Cuitla -
By making some other solids and putting them on the side. Like making a box – a really thin box.
And there’s always Zaxwerks or several other similar plugins.
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Of course! Well I hope there’s no such thing as a dumb question.. Thanks everybody!
Cuitla
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it looks like all they did was make a 2d animation, precomp it, duplicate the precomp, and make the two duplicate comps 3d layers. then you could just parent 1 to the other and voila oh yea and you might wanna make the one in back more transparent. oh and one last thing, you wanna set use a luma matte for the whole end result so that the glass highlights stay intact a bit. play with the transparency of that matte.
Dead the Fed
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Perfect! Will do, and thanks.
Cuitla
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