[Walter Soyka]

Hi Bob,

The issue here isn’t likely copyright — it’s probably the characters as trademarks of Disney. As I understand it, trademarks must be defended, or else they could be considered abandoned and the company would lose the trademark protection. This is not true of copyright, which can be selectively enforced.

See https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/metaschool/fisher/domain/tm.htm#6

But — I practice graphics, not law.

Best,

Walter Soyka
Keen Live, Inc.
Digital Media Design & Technology

[Walter Soyka]

Sorry, I didn’t quite understand the problem at first. The luma matte for the glass is cutting out the reflections, because they are transparent in the layer without the reflections. The reflections pass requires a different alpha channel from your 3D app because different areas of the reflection layer need to be visible.

In other words, each rendered pass needs it’s own alpha channel to cut the proper areas.

Walter Soyka
Keen Live, Inc.
Digital Media Design & Technology

[Walter Soyka]

You want to use a Luma Matte for the track matte, not an alpha matte as in your screenshot. The bottleAlpha.png file is itself fully opaque, so the alpha track matte won’t cut a hole in it anywhere.

You can dial down the impact of the bottleReflect layer by adjusting the layer’s opacity, or increase it by duplicating the layer over top of itself.

Walter Soyka
Keen Live, Inc.
Digital Media Design & Technology