Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #42794
From: Chris Bobotis <chris@mettle.com>
Subject: Re: [AE] help with displacement
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 15:27:18 -0400
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
FreeForm should do this. Did you add an AE light and camera when trying FreeForm?

Check out the tutorial section of our website. You should find some on FreeForm and 3D displacement mapping.

Cheers,
Chris
Mettle.com



On 2012-04-03, at 3:20 PM, sus wrote:

> I need to deform a surface with texture which is within moving video.  The deformation needs to look like memory foam and needs to be based on text and/or illustrations (as if a title has been pushed into foam and is slowly un-deforming back to a flat surface).  
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> I made a displacement map for the text and have tried mesh warp,  displacement map, path distort and DE_FreeForm but none of the results look like believable 3d z displacement. The pixels look like they are displaced in x and y, but they do not look they move or are shaded in z.
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> Any suggestions for either a specific technique or plugin?
>
> Cheers
> S
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