[Wilhelm Hagberg]

Are you working with compound shapes in Illustrator? After Effects would interpret e.g. an “O” as 2 shapes: the outer ring including it’s fill, and the ring shape of the center “hole”.

[Wilhelm Hagberg]

Thank you, that’s so cool! How do you use it, is it applied to selected keyframes on a layer?

[Wilhelm Hagberg]

I will check it out.

One question: does it have the “3d component” found in Avatarify (so that the face in the resulting video can wiggle it’s head slightly to the left and right) or is it frontal 2d only?

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Wilhelm

[Wilhelm Hagberg]

I failed to mention that I want to make a copy of an existing russian doll. So I can’t ”draw” it or eyeball it inside of C4D. I have to create the texture from photographs. Don’t know how this is done? The doll is of course 3-dimensional itself so the challenge is to go from 3d to 2d and back to 3d again in an accurate way.

[Wilhelm Hagberg]

Interesting, I’ll check it out!

Thanks-

Wilhelm

[Wilhelm Hagberg]

Great suggestion, I’ll try that!

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Wilhelm

[Wilhelm Hagberg]

Hi, haven’t tried yet. Where should I start? A back and a front image of the doll, with some extra Yellow to fill in the spaces?

[Wilhelm Hagberg]

Great, thank you!

[Wilhelm Hagberg]

Thank you Cassius! I found the “cast shadow: only” option – and I’m sure that will be very useful in the future! After fiddling around with my project for a while I realised this wasn’t the problem however. Early on I had played with “Layer styles” in the Main Comp. Although they were all turned off it seems like they affected to layers ability to accept shadows. I had to totally exterminate them (layer-layer styles-remove all) and now the project functions as expected.

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Wilhelm

[Wilhelm Hagberg]

Thanks, I’ll try that. I don’t see a “cast shadow : only” option however?

– Wilhelm