Tudor "ted" jelescu
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I would not recommend h264 or MPEG4 encoding from AE for client delivery. Use Adobe Media Encoder to compress a uncompressed render from AE. If you do not have Encoder you can use Super
https://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.htmlTudor “Ted” Jelescu
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I would use a 3d displaced shape that outlines the body of the one being surrounded by the force field and animate the field texture to go around him starting at the center. You can use Free Form to create the 3d displaced shape.
Here’s a tutorial that can help with that:
https://library.creativecow.net/jelescu_tudor/3D-from-2D-image_AE/1
And here’s a good tutorial that may help you with the look of the force field:
https://allbetsareoff.com/tutorials/after-effects-force-field/If you have the cash, you may want to look into FreeForm Pro:
https://library.creativecow.net/jelescu_tudor/FreeForm-Pro-review/1Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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You could try morphing the drawings. Here’s a way of doing that that I posted a while back- it was for a morph between images but the principles are the same:
Use Mesh Warp.
Set 2 layers in a AE comp- the “morph from” layer on top of the “morph to” layer.
Start on the layer you want to morph from- apply Mesh Warp and set keyframe. Move 8 to 15 frames (or as many as you need your morph to be) and change transparency to 50% so that you can see the layer under. Use the mesh warp to distort the features of the top layer to match those of the bottom layer ( eyes to match the eyes, mouth to mouth and so on..).
Apply Mesh Warp to bottom layer and set keyframe at the end of the transition. Go back to the beginning of the transition and use the Mesh Warp to distort the bottom layer to match the top one’s features.
Set transparency keyframes to animate the top layers opacity from 100% to 0 for the length of the morph.
That’s basically it.Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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As the gentlemen before me suggested, I would not advise starting to learn AE with a project as complicated as this one.
However, sometimes if you want to learn how to swim you may jump in the deep end- just make sure there’s a life guard watching, so here’s a few tips:
Toonit – a great plugin that can give a drawing/painting look and feel to a clip. For individual elements you need rotoscoping to isolate them or you need to shoot them on chroma.
https://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/toonit/
Digital Juice has a wide assortment of presets, fx and footage that can be used for the transition:
https://www.digitaljuice.com/products/products.asp?pid=1261Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Todd suggestion is what I would recommend as well. Free Form can do 3d displacement based on displacement maps.
Here’s a tutorial that can help:
https://library.creativecow.net/jelescu_tudor/3D-from-2D-image_AE/1
However if you want more control and better 3d displacement, and if you have the budget you may want to check FreeForm Pro.
Here’s a review and a couple tutorials:
https://library.creativecow.net/jelescu_tudor/FreeForm-Pro-review/1
https://library.creativecow.net/jelescu_tudor/AE-3D-tunnels-FreeForm-Pro-1/1
https://library.creativecow.net/jelescu_tudor/AE-3D-tunnels-FreeForm-Pro-2/1
And here’s an example of a displacement of simple 2d image- the statue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A68RIwVZJZQTudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Free Form like Dave suggested can do the job quite well.
If you have a bit more cash to spend I recommend FreeForm Pro- it can do a lot more than the basic one and it’s 3d displacement capabilities are quite impressive.
Here’s a tutorial for Free Form:
https://library.creativecow.net/jelescu_tudor/3D-from-2D-image_AE/1Some FreeForm Pro links:
https://library.creativecow.net/jelescu_tudor/FreeForm-Pro-review/1
https://library.creativecow.net/jelescu_tudor/AE-3D-tunnels-FreeForm-Pro-1/1
https://library.creativecow.net/jelescu_tudor/AE-3D-tunnels-FreeForm-Pro-2/1Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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I thought you said you were not going to use it for that- a dslr does compress the color information quite a bit. Thus you will not have all that information you need to pull a good key or color correct.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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You do not apply the distortion to the drop- you create an animated shape in your displacement map that matches the animation of the drop and you apply that to the background image. You can comp the drop layer on top using a transfer mode like screen or overlay.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Anything can be vectorized in AI – it may take a little time though, that’s all.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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For best quality you need to render from AE in an uncompressed codec like Animation or a file sequence- tga, png, uncompressed tiff…
Then you either include that in u=your final cut in a editing soft or if it is a finished piece you encode for playback/delivery.
Even if Animation is a .mov it is not a playback format, as most machines will have a hard time handling that much information, so that will be need to be compressed as well. On the other hand, it is not recommended too render compressed delivery formats from AE, since the compression it is capable of is not the best.
What the best workflow is, is to render uncompressed out of AE and then use a software like Adobe Media Encoder to compress for final delivery.
A render farm will work only if you render individual frames.
As a side note, Media Encoder does not see sequences of files- the workaround is to import the sequence in AE, then open that comp in Encoder, and render from there.Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist