[Patrick Collins]

Thanks!

Well– I am getting really close with everything… The last problem I have is matching the color of John Mccain’s neck with the opera singer’s torso… As you can see by this screenshot here:

https://collinatorstudios.com/www/mccain_picture.png

Does anyone have any suggestions as far as what the best way to blend the two together is? Is there a way to set a null or something to do a gradient from the color of the opera singer’s body to transparent? That way I could have it get less and less as it gets closer to mccain’s head… Except mccain’s head is on another layer, so that probably won’t work, will it… ?

Hmmmmm.. Well anyway, hopefully someone has a suggestion.

Another question I have, is regarding removing the opera singer’s head.. I am right now doing a black solid and doing a strong feather on a mask around it, but I was noticing that it’s very hard to control the points of a mask. Is there a way to add additional points to the shape of a mask? Like when it’s a square, can I have add a 5th point and be able to stretch it ?

Thanks everyone!

-patrick

[Patrick Collins]

I have a camera move/dolly out thing where I am moving out and down/right.. I had to set keyframes for both position and point of interest, but it seems that it has some jerks here and there, and if I move through the time line and examine the values of those two things, they are sometimes the same but other times off by .2 – .4, and I am wondering if that is what is causing the jerking.. So I thought it would be good if I could make sure both of these have the same value at all times…

Is the expression / pickwhip the best way to do this?

-patrick

[Patrick Collins]

Hi, Thanks for the reply…

Well to be honest, I have minimal experience with AE, so I am not quite sure how the best way to do things are.

Can you please tell me where these anti-aliasing settings are found? I am not seeing them..

thank you.
-patrick

[Patrick Collins]

I figured it out.. Though why this is the case is a mystery…

I had a gradient (white solid + ramp – blending options to multiply), my vector art both in a precomp…

and for some reason having this in a precomp caused it to get fuzzy.. If I take the elements out of the precomp then it works fine……………… I DONT GET IT!!!

-p

[Patrick Collins]

I tried that, and it did not change anything…..

-p

[Patrick Collins]

Well.. This is whats confusing.. It appears that when 3D is checked on, the continous rasterize no longer does anything—

And more importantly, I have a camera move– and if I take my background precomp layer and click the continuous rasterize (since the background is one of the things that are looking fuzzy), then suddenly my camera positions are no longer happening…

If you have downloaded my project, you can see this by going into my main comp (menu1), to the beginning around 5 seconds into it and go to layer 20 and click continuous rasterize on, you will see that the position suddenly changes and we’re no longer zoomed into the background (I don’t quite understand this behavior).

Thank you again for your help– if I can get this resolved I will be so happy.

-patrick

[Patrick Collins]

hi there, thank you for the reply.

this is my project:
https://www.collinatorstudios.com/www/dvdmenu2.zip

I am using a camera, but depth of field is off…

It just seems that for example, the logo– if I click the 3d switch on the logo.ai layer, it immediately becomes fuzzy. I don’t understand why this is happening.. Don’t I want all of my elements to be 3D to utilize 3D drop shadows, etc.. ?

-patrick

[Patrick Collins]

thanks you very much for your help, I greatly appreciate it.

OK.. Now my problem is, when I am zoomed in, the image does not look sharp, unless I check the box “for vector layer: continously rasterize”– but once I turn this on, the 3D camera stuff seems to no longer work.

For example, I can adjust the camera angle so that I see the image from an angle, but once I click on continuous rasterize, it jumps back to how it was as if there was no camera.

How do I fix this?

-patrick

[Patrick Collins]

ok gotcha..

One other question now… I am trying to set the gradient to my image in AI (or is there a way to do this in AE??)

But as you can see here:
https://www.collinatorstudios.com/www/gradientissue.png

1) The gradient is grayscale– I cannot figure out how to set this to color! In the color window, there are settings for “linear” and “radial” under gradient, but I can’t figure out how I define what color is the start and end of the gradient!

2) If you notice, each path has an individual gradient applied to it specific to it’s height and width. I was hoping for a way to apply a single gradient that affects all paths equally… Is there a way to do this?

thank you.

-patrick

[Patrick Collins]

Hmm.. ok, so I am trying to do this vector AI/eps thing, and I am not sure what I’m doing wrong.. Here are my steps:

https://www.collinatorstudios.com/www/steps.png

1. I started in illustrator.. selected the shape paths, and copied them.

2. I created a new file in photoshop where I pasted the clipboard as a “shape layer”

3. I saved this as an EPS and imported into AE.. However I don’t see my shape outlines, but rather some strange horizontal lines?

… If you look on the .png image above, the 4th image down is what I want the image to look like– a black background with the shapes filled in with a gradient. I am not sure how I get this effect via the eps method. Could you please help walk me through this?

thank you!

-patrick