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| Thanks Chris. Will check it out right away and please post part 2 when it is ready. Can you please add a link to the FreeForm V2 page. Same features as the bundled version but much faster. http://mettle.com/Products/FreeForm-V2.php We are working on something else for AE that may help with projections (amongst other things) as well. Please get in touch with me at chris@mettle.com Would like to get you in on the beta for that one. Cheers, Chris mettle.com On 2012-04-03, at 5:25 PM, Chris Zwar wrote: > I posted a new video here: > > http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/motiongraphicsvizfx/story/an_a_to_z_of_building_projections_-_part_1/ > > I have to apologise though, this is the first time I've staggered the release of a multi-part series so it's only part 1. Part 2 will look extensively at Freeform and Z-Born Toy. I'm hoping to finish it and upload it over the weekend. I'm not sure Freeform is even mentioned in part 1, even though we used it for everything... > > In addition to recommending those lighting plugins and CC Glass, ditto for Brian's Caustics suggestion. I love that plugin... > > > -Chris > > On 04/04/2012, at 7:11 AM, Chris Bobotis wrote: > >> Chris. Tanks for chiming in. Must have missed your post on the building projections - what is the link for that please? >> >> Chris >> On 2012-04-03, at 5:02 PM, Chris Zwar wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> It sounds like the problem is not the displacement - FreeFrom can handle this - but the fact you need the lighting and shading to go along with the distortion. >>> >>> This is actually the problem we faced when doing the building projections for Melbourne (see my earlier post). We used a combination of FreeForm to do the distortion, and the plugin Z-Born Toy to get the lights and shadows. Both plugins used the same displacement map, and the result worked well. >>> >>> Z-Born toy is not free, but you can download the demo to see if it works for you. You will definitely need to read the help files though! >>> http://www.frischluft.com/zborntoy/index.php >>> >>> Normality is a free plugin that does some similar things, but last time I checked it didn't generate shadows from light sources. But it is free, and again it might help you out: >>> http://www.3dcg.net/software/normality/ >>> >>> Otherwise you could try experimenting with the CC Glass plugin, which comes with After Effects, and is OK for simple bump maps. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> >>> -Chris >>> >>> On 04/04/2012, at 5:20 AM, 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). >>>> >>>> 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. >>>> >>>> Any suggestions for either a specific technique or plugin? >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> S >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> +---End of message---+ >>>> To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> >>>> >>> >>> >>> +---End of message---+ >>> To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> >> >> Cheers, >> Chris >> Mettle.com >> Skype: Mettlecom >> >> >> >> >> +---End of message---+ >> To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> >> > > > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> Cheers, Chris Mettle.com Skype: Mettlecom |
