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Scene recreation
I’m looking to create an animation similar to the one in the video
(link= https://users.eastlink.ca/~imuhammad
Its does not seem overly complicated (a camera flying thru a floor littered with cubes).I’m thinking some type of Particle system and a floor layer. I need help with the camera movement. Should I pickwhip camera to a null and move the null? Any tips, instructions or suggestion creating realistic shadows, motion blur, depth of field or scene creation in general is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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My suggestion would be really to do this in a 3D app… achieving this quality in AE would be next to impossible. For example, there are nice, soft contact shadows in the clip you linked to which were probably created with Ambient Occlusion (or Final Gathering, or a “Dirtmap”…) Recreating such a 3d scene in AE would be very hard work, and will most likely not look quite as good.
If you insist on AE, animating the camera would probably best be done along a path, with separate control over the point-of-interest. There’s an excellent tutorial on that here on the cow (I seem to be pointing people there a lot recently…), search for “Animating the Camera” and “Expressing the Camera” by Rick Gerard.
If you manage to recreate the cube objects and the floor in AE, motion blur and DOF should be manageable with the standard AE MB switch and camera properties. Expect long rendering times!
Good luck…
– AA
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