• Adobe After Effects

  Mapping video to grid. (smoke face)

  Posted by Conan Stott on June 13, 2009 at 7:46 am

  Hi there. I am trying to make a face made out of smoke in After Effects and am not quite succeeding. I am thinking if I can map a grid (luminance based?) to my keyed face video I may be able to map a smoke element to the grid. Or better yet, mapping a smoke element to the luminance or alpha values of the footage itself. Is there a way to do either of these? Displacement map doesn’t appear to work this way. And I have been unable to make a mesh grid that maps to the face.

  I also have trapcode form and am able to map particles to the face with that. It looks ok but I am unable to make the particles appear smokey, it looks more like a face made out of white dots (kinda like tv noise)
  Any suggestions here would be much appreciated.

  Thank you

  Regards

  Conan

  Conan Stott replied 16 years, 11 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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