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Using ‘Card Dance’ to create 3D concave/convex shapes. How?
So I am trying to replicate this tutorial: https://www.ayatoweb.com/ae_tips_e/ae49_e.html
I am on step 4 where they save to use the Card Dance plugin to make the concave/convex shapes that make up the 3d version of the face image. I don’t understand what settings they are tweaking to make these concave/vex areas in the text to make a 3d rendering of the face image. Does anyone have an idea how to do it?
Thanks
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You use the face image as the “gradient 1” in the Card Dance effect controls, then set the Z-position (within the effect controls) to “intensity 1”, or something like that. So the dark areas recede, and the bright area advance.
Note: This is a fake, since the lights and darks of the face don’t match its “ins” and “outs” exactly. See how the dark eyelid represents a valley to the effect, when in reality, it wouldn’t be a valley? The only way to make the contours exactly match a face might be to light the original shot using a ringlight or beam splitter, then depend on the inverse square law to make the light fall off with distance from the light & camera, so the nose is brightest, then the lips, cheeks, and so on as the light falls off.
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I do have the face image as the gradient layer and I now set the Z position to intensity 1. However it still has no perception of any 3d contours in the slightest. Now with the Z position set at intensity 1 is just breaks apart the word movie. But it looks completely flat with no contours. How do I get that true to form 3d look? You said its a fake. How did they ‘fake’ it to get a more realistic 3d look?
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Well, I meant that Ayato’s version doesn’t exactly match the contours of a face, in that most of us don’t have hollows where our eyes should be. 🙂
Did you move the camera to see the thing at an angle? There are no shadows in Card Dance to provide visual cues from flat on.
Do you have a screen grab so we can see what you’ve done?
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