[John Cuevas]

Meant to add, when he gets to the next scene, most likely their is a screen capture, monitor with the exact framing of the previous scene, to make matching work.

And by careful planning, mostly a lot of story boarding and having the right people, someone who’s great at lighting and probably someone who can color correct really well too. Those are the biggest issues in pulling off this effect.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

How are you bringing it into AE?

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

I`m still trying to understand how are they to transit to another background without changing his position or facial expression.

Mostly, careful planning. He practices singing the song a bunch, they shoot one scene, figure out where he needs to be for the next scene, and set it up to match. Maybe the help of one of the Morph type of plugins

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

In the precomp, do you have accept shadows turned on?

Also, do you have have any 2D layers between the object that you want to cast the shadow and the wall, that will mess up AE’s render order, disabling the shadows.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

The problem was that your 3D Calendar Set, didn’t have the continuous rasterization button pressed(looks like a little sun). That button when makes your transformation move forward into later comps, like movement in Z space. If you go to the quarter turn mark in my “Final Exaggerated” project, turn off the rasterize button and you will see the difference.

Here’s a good explanation of Continously Rasterize/Collapse Layers Button

9318_calendaranimation.aep.zip

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

If you upload your file, I’ll take a look at it.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Very cool, thanks for the link.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

In the precomp the calendar block 25 layer has 3D enabled and 1 copy of it set back in z space by 8 pixels. On the bottom layer, press “T” and change the opacity to 50%. Now in the comp window set the from Active or front to Custom view 1. You can see the offset clearly.

Then in the final comp the drop shadow and bevel are added to give the fake 3D look to the calendar. Simple as that. Stacking layers is an old trick used in AE to fake depth.

Here’s an old example project I did, using a similiar technique with multiple layers. Created 1 layer, enanbled 3D, then duplicated it and changed the color. Then added a simple expression to offset it z space and duplicated that a bunch of times. Basically the same thing he did, but I used a bunch of layers so I could rotate completely around my object without seeing through it.

9309_extude.aep.zip

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

In your comp window, when double click one of the mask vertex points. A box should appear around the entire masked object, move the selection tool over one of the corners and you will get a rotate tool.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Check you email, fixed and uploaded you a new version.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.