Tudor "ted" jelescu
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Green screen is not necessary – tracking points on the pages are though. If your pages are thick and stay pretty flat when turned it will be easier, and Mocha can help. However, if your pages tend to bend and have a curve when flipped you will need a 3d distortion tool like Free Form or FreeForm Pro to simulate that. Vishesh suggested a full AE generated book and that may be an option. In this situation create a book that is fully painted in chroma paint (or made out of chroma paper) with track points on it (darker chroma paint/paper). This will allow you to replace the book quite easy ( be aware that you will get a lot of spill though).
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist -
With AE it is always better to work on a local drive. For external solutions you should look for options with a transfer rate better than what a 7200rpm drive can give you.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist -
Also, it looks like there are two instances of a lens flare animated as they cross in the middles of the “vortex”. Knoll Light Factory or Optical Flares most likely.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist -
I would try to combine a particle system with 3d distortion using FreeForm Pro. Use 3d distortion and some displacement to animate the front for each letter being ripped apart using FreeForm Pro. Use particles to animate the texture and displacement map to simulate the front disintegrating into bits (like in the tutorial from the previous answer).
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist -
That is weird indeed- my question though, why not use CS 5.5 if it works fine?
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist -
In time remapping you have no track points- AE uses the whole image to figure out how to interpolate. It matters a lot what images you are working from- if the positions of the head are radically different ( 3 images for a 90 degree turn for example), you will not be able to get a smooth turn because you lack a lot of information. You may want to try morphing the head from one position to the next – it will not look quite like a turn but it will be a smoother animation.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist -
CS6 will run on your machine, however, a faster processor like it was suggested and a better video card would allow you to tap into the power of CS6 a lot more than what you have right now. AE and Premiere in CS6 make use of the Cuda technology on Nvidia cards for real time previews, effects and 3d. You will be able to use the software, but with AE do not expect to do any 3d work without using 3rd party plugins that make use of the CPU or any GPU, not just Nvidia.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist -
You cut a mask or possibly try to key out the shape- hard to tell without a image to look at. Is the shot static or does the camera move?
If you need to cut a mask and you have a moving shot, you will need to track the shot and apply the information to the mask.
From the question I tend to think that you are new to AE. It would be beneficial to check out the tutorials here on the Creative Cow . Also, questions like this should be posted to this forum:https://forums.creativecow.net/adobeaftereffectsbasics
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist -
Thre’s a jobs section for low pay or no pay jobs on the COW where posts like yours should go.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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If the tilt is at a constant speed you may be able to offset the footage, key out the text and position the offset layer under in such a way that it matches the place where the text is. You will stil have to play around with cloning for the first part- making a clean plate (paint out the text) in PSD and moving that to match the camera move may help for that first part.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist