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Need some help from the pro’s !!
Hey all, i have recently agreed to do a promo DVD with animations and all that for my old school that is targeted at the kids, what i am trying to achieve is a classroom effect where each door in the classroom is a new area on the DVD. I have decided to used 3ds Max 7, After Effects 6.5 and Adobe’s DVD authoring software. Firstly what is the best way to export the 3ds file to import into After effects, and secondly has anyone ever tried anything like this before. i know this project is mainly for DVD but i am hoping to do the majority of this in AE. Any ideas are welcome, Thanks all for any feedback 🙂
PS: I will attempt to draw the buildings in 3DS Max
: Create the links, animation and text in AE
: Author In Adobe Encore DVD (if i can buy it in time) -
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hello,
I would make al the animations of the classroom in max, and then simply import as an image sequence in AE, where you make the text and animate that.
does your camera move each time you hilight a door? or only when you enter it? if you go for the first option, you will have to make a menu for each button and work with the auto activate function in Encore.but for both options i would still render all the needable animations in max, (one for each door if you work with a center point where the cam always comes back, if you want to go from door to door it gets a bit more complicated, i think)
I hope someone will correct me, if I am wrong. But thats the way I would do it. if you understand it, my enlish is not 100%
grtz
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Hey guys,
Yeah I just recently did the same thing for a DVD with a buddy of mine, but it was a castle instead of a classroom. Basically this is what we did:
– (I used cinema 4d instead though): I rendered out everything that we needed, the intro up to the scene, then each sequence “into the doors/windows” all seperately. I would do this first on a really crappy quality especially if you are using lights, or having anything moving wether its lights, shadows, or objects (I had some flame effects and volumetric lighting going on).
– Try the whole process with low rendering in max because stupid issues will come up as you import and edit things via max or the DVD authoring software. For example, we had a swinging torch lamp above the main door, when the movie looped, we had to sync this up down to the “T”
– then just put a invisible button over the doors, like a highlighting of the text or a highlight of the door frame, etc for each link.
– Basically the other guy was dead on right, and we did it this way, our biggest issue was with the text being blurry and screen safety areas…. and of course rendering the scene out to look realistic.Sorry this is verbose, but if you need any more help, I can break it down into much more detailed steps if needed be.
hope this helps!
Steve -
Hey thanks for your reply, yeah that sounds good ill just need to polish up my 3DS Max skills. I shall see what i can do. Cheers
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