Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #42796
From: sus <SUSANNA@LITTLEBEAST.COM>
Subject: Re: [AE] help with displacement
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 13:23:18 -0700
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Thanks - I'll look at it again.  Is Freeform in AE5.5 the same as Freeform v2 on the Mettle
 site?


On Apr 3, 2012, at 12:27 PM, Chris Bobotis wrote:

> FreeForm should do this. Did you add an AE light and camera when trying FreeForm?
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> Check out the tutorial section of our website. You should find some on FreeForm and 3D displacement mapping.
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> Cheers,
> Chris
> Mettle.com
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> On 2012-04-03, at 3:20 PM, sus wrote:
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>> 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?
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>> Cheers
>> S
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