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  • Text projection

    Posted by Elcritic on July 19, 2007 at 3:07 pm

    I want to achieve an effect of projecting text into intersecting walls. Is there a way that After Effects recognizes those intersecting solids and continues the projection with the correct deformation?

    Jason Brown replied 19 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Jason Brown

    July 19, 2007 at 3:18 pm

    My thought is to create a wall with text on it, duplicate it…then place it intersecting with the other wall at the desired point where the text breaks.

    If your looking for the *correct deformation* what I think you are saying is that a wall not at a perpendicular angle to a projector will *stretch* the image…you could achieve this by simply scaling disproportionatelly (sp?) the text size and defocusing it on the wall closest to the camera.

    HTH

    -JB

    -Jason Brown
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  • Elcritic

    July 19, 2007 at 3:37 pm

    Sorry I forgot to mention that the projection would be animated. For example the text would be projected to a wall and slide down to the floor.

  • Roland R. kahlenberg

    July 19, 2007 at 3:45 pm

    As Dave has mentioned, use Light Transmission. Take a look at this tutorial from one of the COW’s bestests – Rick Gerard

    Cheers
    Roland Kahlenberg
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  • Jason Brown

    July 19, 2007 at 5:01 pm

    Hey Dave,

    Great suggestion…I always love your workarounds. Good call.

    -JB

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