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problem with 3d layers in 3d comp
You all may know the HP ad in whitch Jay-Z holds volume meters and audio spectrums between his thumbs and index fingers. I am trying to recreate something that looks the same, but I use AE in stead of 3D software (Maya/3DSMax?). It’s also a search for the limits of AE.
The problem is that the layers don’t act like I want them to. The most simple way to do this is by creating some 3D layers (solids) and pre-comp them. Step 2 is to put the pre-comped layers with corner pin. I converted the pre-comp to a 3D-comp first. But it doesn’t exactly look the way it’s suppose to. It looks as if the solids don’t have the same size (they do!) and if they don’t stand up straight: example. It should look like the red solid is “connected” to my thumbs, the yellow solid is connected to my index fingers and the orange one should stay in the middle of the comp. Now it looks like if the layers all point to some point that floats above the orange solid. Is there a solution for this problem?
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Corner Pin is a 2D plugin. Does the precomp need to be 3D?
I might not be getting the setup straight in my head, but how about 2D for everything?
Precomp the colored solid layer, then bring that comp in, one comp for all three colors, then apply corner Pin to that. Or you could even track the finger/thumb connections and tie the precomp to that with a corner pin track, no?
Here’s a tut for Perspective Corner Pin; it’s to change the writing on a sign but just use your thumbs as the corners ot the sign and pin the solid precomp to them:
Keep motion in perspective
https://studio.adobe.com/us/tips/tip.jsp?p=1&id=100241&xml=aft65cornerpin
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Thanks Mike! I’m gonna try it and hopefully it works 😉 Thanks a lot!
Stuffy
student Image and Media Technology
Utrecht School of the Arts
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It doesn’t work…
This is my original setup: three solids in one comp. The solids have an X rotation of 90 degrees (3D layers). So they are flipped horizontally. The solids are pre-comped and the comp has an X rotation of 100 degrees (3D comp). The four corners are pinned to the thumbs and index fingers with corner pin (also tried CC Power Pin, but gives the same result). The three solids still look like they don’t stand up straight but point to some direction up in the imaginairy sky…
What can I do to fix this and get the solids to stand up straight??Stuffy
student Image and Media Technology
Utrecht School of the Arts
The Netherlands -
It stands up straight for me, when using your 3d setup.
I guess I don’t understand why it’s 3D, it seems like only 2D is needed.
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