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reflections in after effects
I have something very simple that I want to do. I have a picture of a ferarri, and a text layer over top of it. I want to have a light shine through the text and cast a reflection on the ferarri. I’ve made all three layers 3d and messed with the material properties and i can’t figure it out. Any help would be appreciated!
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AE does not natively have 3d reflections, if you want them try Discreet Combustion. However, In many cases you can fake them in AE. Anyway how do you expect these reflections to work? If you have a picture of a Ferrari and flat text how would the reflection look? It wouldn’t look like the reflection is actually on the car itself, it would look like the reflection in on a picture of the car floating in 3d space.
If you just want a picture of a Ferrari with some floating text in the air that appears to reflect on the Ferrari I think you could fake this using AE or Photoshop.
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This might help:
Using Projection Layers to create a gobos and projector type effects by Rick Gerard
https://www.creativecow.net/articles/gerard_rick/Projection_tut/index.html
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agreed, I do not want the text to be read off the car, I want the text to be read as hovering over the car, with its reflection faked on the car image. The text is animated, which is why photoshop is not an option. Right now I have it set so I have a spotlight on the top layer. This is shining onto a text layer which is then casting a fairly accurate looking shadow on the bottom layer with the ferrari image. The problem is, the shadow is black – I want it to look white, like a reflection. The light is white. When I change the light transmission of the text to 100 (which I thought would let 100% of the white light through making a white reflection on the car image layer), the shadow just goes away. However when the light transmission is 0, I have a nice, dark shadow. Does that make sense?
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The white text’s white shadow is getting lost in the white light. Change the text color to red, you’ll have a red shadow.
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Hi,
You also could simply duplicate your text layer after animating it, reduce the text size of the dup, add a slight lens blur, reduce the opacity a little and distort the layer with the bulge effect or whatever to gain a more realistic look. You may need to animate the bulge center with a couple of frames depending on your text animation.
I hope this helps.
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that’s exactly what i ended up doing….thank you!
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