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Sincerely Apologize if this has been asked, Camera question
Essnetially, I have a 2d photo shop file the has been broken down into like 50 layers, I am making some of the layers appear and disappear with basic keyframing and opacity. however, some of the layers i want to appear and i would like to have them appear as follows:
the background of the image goes 3d and the X axis adjustment makes it appear flat.
i then want the individual layers to pop up intermittently, after a layer pops up, i’d like to have a orbiting camera swoop in a bit and zoom around the popped up layer (which i’d also like to mildy extrude somehow)
I haven’t begun this process yet…does anyone have any initial suggestions on the basics i have to be aware of to achieve this concept which i hope, of delineated clearly.
thank you in advance.
Dwight Spitz, prepping for final a/v project for RRC
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Wow, umm. I would make sure that you parent your camera’s (the AE camera) Point of Interest to the layer with the greatest z-depth (back the farthest <-is that a word?) so that it gives the layers in front of it a 3D look it is also referred to as the Horizon. Andrew Kramer (videocopilot.net) has a video tutorial that may help you. Here: https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/virtual_3d_photos/
Without knowing 100% as to what you are doing I still recommend using scripts to space out your layers and organize them.
Lloyd Alvarez’s (aescripts.com) 3D_layer_distributor.jsx (you should make changes to the script itself using TextWrangler (if your on a Mac) to get the layers where you want them to.
& To organize (before / or after)
rd_KindaSorta.jsx
It will put the layers in order based on their position (extremely useful when working with so many layers).Lloyd Demonstrates these scripts here: (Links to download the scripts on the website below)
https://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/motion-graphics/cinematic-opening-title-redux-day-1/
and here:
https://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/motion-graphics/cinematic-opening-title-redux-day-2/
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