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Subject: Faking ambient occlusion or SSAO in After Effects?
From: Greg Balint <delrazoraelist@gmail.com>
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
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Hey all,

I'm on a crunch time project right now and one of my renders from Cinema 4d
was going to take over 25 hours with Ambient occlusion on.. the project is
super high resolution 9660x1080 and it's just simple cube-space mograph
stuff, but the AO was taking forever.. I opted to turn off the AO pass and
render out a general pass instead..

Now I need to figure out how to get that look back, as the standard pass is
too flat and dull.

There USED to be a plugin / script called super SSAO or something like
that, and it used pixelbender to make fake AO on a prerendered animation or
still.  it was actually quite useful for quick renders from 3d and although
it wasn't PERFECT, it was great for quick jobs that couldn't afford the
render times but still needed the extra depth.

Anyway.. does anyone know of a way to do this without that plugin? (as far
as I know pixelbender went away after CS5 so the plugin i used to use is
not going to work)

Maybe a few regular plugins that could create the same effect?

Thanks!

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///Greg Balint
//Art Director / Motion Graphics Designer
/321.514.4839
delRAZOR.com/

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<div dir=3D"ltr">Hey all,=A0<div><br></div><div>I&#39;m on a crunch time pr=
oject right now and one of my renders from Cinema 4d was going to take over=
 25 hours with Ambient occlusion on.. the project is super high resolution =
9660x1080 and it&#39;s just simple cube-space mograph stuff, but the AO was=
 taking forever.. I opted to turn off the AO pass and render out a general =
pass instead..=A0</div>
<div><br></div><div>Now I need to figure out how to get that look back, as =
the standard pass is too flat and dull.</div><div><br></div><div>There USED=
 to be a plugin / script called super SSAO or something like that, and it u=
sed pixelbender to make fake AO on a prerendered animation or still. =A0it =
was actually quite useful for quick renders from 3d and although it wasn&#3=
9;t PERFECT, it was great for quick jobs that couldn&#39;t afford the rende=
r times but still needed the extra depth.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anyway.. does anyone know of a way to do this without t=
hat plugin? (as far as I know pixelbender went away after CS5 so the plugin=
 i used to use is not going to work)</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe a few r=
egular plugins that could create the same effect?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks!<br clear=3D"all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir=
=3D"ltr"><pre cols=3D"72"><font face=3D"arial, helvetica, sans-serif">///Gr=
eg Balint
//Art Director / Motion Graphics Designer
/321.514.4839
delRAZOR.com/ </font></pre></div>
</div></div>

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