Tudor "ted" jelescu
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It looks like it’s a premultiplication issue – try rendering premultiplied in AE.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Yep- shadows are messy to deal with. My suggestion is to place the stone pillar a bit more in front of the guy in the back, thus making it lower in the frame, blow up the image 10% and position it as low on the y axis as possible- this way you cut the shadow in half. Since you have a simple shape, I suggest using a solid that is the same gray as the darkest gray in the image (excluding the character in front that walks in) with 90% transparency. Mask the shape of the shadow and feather 2-5 pixels. That should do the trick.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Pretty much- read the section regarding this matter at the link below for more information:
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WSB865D05C-3793-4682-B26E-5B25FAF45432.htmlTudor “Ted” Jelescu
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I did a little test- about 20 min of work. If you duplicate the layer- precomp and crush blacks to make the image contrasty enough in the precomp- roto brush does a pretty good job of picking up the foreground with the two actors. A bit of tweaking for the matte edge, short track, comping the pillar (or whatever that may be- pardon my lack of knowledge on the subject)with blacks cut to match the plate and whites a bit brighter and you have a decent replacement. The background plate for the new sky/mountains should be adjusted to where the edge on the right of the foreground almost blends in with it.
Of course the tracking should be better and the shadow adjusted + a patch to cover the tripod shadow, but not bad me thinks.
4051_malvernhillfatherhiredtj.mp4.zipTudor “Ted” Jelescu
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As any new technology, there’s a slow start with 3d text in AE. The raytracing is awesome and there’s great things to come, but unless you have a killer nvidia card and perhaps a iofx card, I would not count on using that for heavy duty 3d text projects where the client wants everything done yesterday.
SSAE is currently much faster and you can get away with a lot using the right reflection maps and glows, especially if you work in 32bit.Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Free Form Pro, Shape Shifter AE and Zaxwerks Invigorator Pro (the new upcoming version especially) are great for 3D work in AE.
Plexus and Newton are quite interesting as well.
Trapcode and all other Red Giant plugins of course.
I’ve been using Knoll Lens Flare Pro from the beginning, but Optical Flares are good as well.
AE comes with a bunch of great plugins – I recommend browsing and using Brainstorm.
There’s quite a few scripts and expressions as well that can make life interesting- aescripts.com is a great resource.Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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AE comes with CC Force Motion Blur. The plugin does a decent job of adding motion blur just by analyzing the movement in the frame. This may be an option.
Here’s a good tutorial on that:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/force_blur.phpTudor “Ted” Jelescu
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If you plan to use ShapeShifter AE from Mettle you can build your text in a precomp and then extrude the precomp using SSAE. This way you can easily change the design of your text (especially in a project like the one you posted as an example).
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Create your own blood trickle- put some red food coloring in water, mix a touch of black or dark blue, corn syrup and thickener (here’s a bunch of other recipes: https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Fake-Blood ), fill a baloon (white or green, matte finish) and stab that. You can get some pretty decent elements with any HD camera/DSLR.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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No, but you can rent the plugin for the duration of your project.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist