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Refraction for After Effects CC after Normality?
hi—
I need to use 3D passes of a glass-like material to distort or refract layers in After Effects CC
I understand that the plug-in Normality was able to achieve this effect very well, but that it no longer functions for AE CC
Is there an alternate method available? I know that Nuke has iDistort, which takes a 3d normal pass and refracts underlying footage. And my understanding is that Normality had done something similar.
Maybe there is a functionality in AE CC that I am missing. Or maybe there is a way to recreate that refraction effect through a clever compositing structure.
I appreciate any ideas, and encourage Adobe to look into the Normality functionality for a future feature set.
Thanks,
Mike -
3 Replies
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Frischluft ZbornToy [link] can help you with refraction, given a normal pass.
Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
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Thanks, Walter!
I knew about Frischluft as a great depth of field option, but I hadn’t known about its refraction capabilities
I will try it out
—Mike
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Nuke’s IDistort node is equivalent to After Effects’ Displacement Map effect.
Darby Edelen
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