[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

For a true 3d environment you would need to combine a few plugins.
Trapcode Horizon will give you a 360 sky
Psunami will create a realistic endless ocean.
Free Form can create true 3d displacement and thus land formations that can look convincing with the right alpha for the texture and the right texture.
You will have to link the Psunami Camera to the AE camera (tutorial).
You can get away with using just Horizon and Free Form with a motion tiled ocean, but that will give you a pretty flat surface.
The new FreeForm Proo plugin can create pretty amazing environments as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1uybr_AhT0

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist

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[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

Thumb drives- I echo Dave, why would you chance it with a drive with moving parts?

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist

[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

With what you have right now in AE it will be hard- Eddy had some good ideas. I would ad distortion maps- match the top layer of triangles creating a black and white image of the same triangles and use that as a distortion map on another layer with colored triangles. On top you would have the initial triangles layer composited with Add or Screen mode.
With the new FreeForm Pro plugin from mettle you may be able to displace a triangle image in 3d, and then add a reflection map with another triangle image to create the look you’re after.

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist

[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

The player does not display the time and there’s a lot of triangles in this clip- can you be more specific? Is it the “diamond” like effect or something else?

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist

[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

Glad to hear it worked!

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist

[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

Here’s some useful reading.

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist

[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

50i stands for interlaced footage (50 interlaced= 25 fps)
If you do not interpret your footage de-interlacing it, then even if you render progressive (frames) your fields will still show. It seems like a case of interlaced background and progressive gfx. Just use a 50i setup for your project and render out at 50i and you should be fine.

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist

[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

Are you rendering your graphics interlaced?

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist

[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

Did you unlink the projected image and the light from your camera?

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist

[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

Or maybe you are referring to a 3d camera projection?

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist