Add Thickness to 3D Composites

Byron K wrote on 7/4/2009, 11:29 PM

I was wondering if anyone had any ideas if there was a way to add some thickness to the objects when moving the images in the 3D space?

For instance instead of having my image move around on a thin piece of paper have it look like it's moving on something thicker like cardboard.

Thanks!

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FrigidNDEditing wrote on 7/5/2009, 12:08 AM

you're basically talking about extrusion, and that's something that can't be done outside of something that actually does 3D.

You can however duplicate your layer and move it small amounts back, and it could give an illusion of thickness. i'd suggest doing what I did to actually create a virtual piece of cardboard in AE in Vegas, however there is some substantial diffiulty in doing it in Vegas. (my method was to make 6 various sized planes of images for left, right, top, bottom, front, and back and position them all in 3D space to be a 3D box with scans of the cardboard front, back, sides, top, and bottom.

Dave

gpsmikey wrote on 7/5/2009, 8:42 AM

You might want to check out BluffTitler --- a different little utility but does some cool stuff and is not very expensive - check out the examples on their page. Generates an uncompressed avi file you can use and does work with a lot of stuff in 3D space.
http://www.blufftitler.us/
As they say "Create dazzling 3D titles for your videos with BluffTitler DX9" - only $50 and there are a number of inexpensive utilities you can get to go with it.
Check out the examples. (no association with them other than I have purchased it).

mikey

JohnnyRoy wrote on 7/5/2009, 9:27 AM

You can add 3D extruded objects with the Boris FX/Boris RED plug-in. Then just parent your movie to the face of the 3D object using a 3D Container right in Boris.

~jr

Byron K wrote on 7/5/2009, 1:48 PM

Thanks for the responses and suggestions!

I was experimenting with the stacking technique but it was becoming time consuming to get multiple pictures to stack on each other then to move them all at the same time. This is probably my only option short of paying for 3rd party app.

Mike, Bluff Titler's YouTube demo at 6:55 is pretty much what I'm looking for! Do you know if the particle effects can rotate in 3D?

Thanks again everyone!

gpsmikey wrote on 7/5/2009, 4:45 PM

I really have not had a chance to play with BluffTitler too much, but if you look on the web site, they have lots of demos and you can download the demo files for most of them, modifying them for your own use. I have seen some pretty cool demos that people have done with it though.

mikey

Byron K wrote on 7/5/2009, 10:15 PM

I'll didn't notice the demo files down load the first time around.

Thanks!
Byron

Rory Cooper wrote on 7/5/2009, 11:03 PM

What you want is paper to have an edge like cardboard

Use the bump map fx

Add this to the media its more effective than the track
Choose alpha not RGB in the settings
Set your light high right hand corner and set Z to 000
Bump height to 1 and shine to 1

This fx is only playing on light so it will give you a slight edge