After Effects team

OK. I have signed up to be on the After Effects team for group project

I look forward to creating great things

The shots are to be done today

Kang is the supervisor and will lead the way

Today is the first day

We are setting up the background and character animation

Now, we are setting up a really cool camera (perspective)

Here are the, how to do, notes

Projection Mapping

Save BG art as PNG (save the Background only, no need foreground)

In Maya:

Model the cave according to the background art (from cube)

Mesh Display > Reverse (to reverse the face)

Enable "Keep Hard Edge" on under the channel attribute

Smooth the mesh

Edit the cave mesh using lattice

Delete History

Create camera > turn on film gate > position it according to the shot > change camera settings under Render setting (HD 1080)

Lock the camera, then change the camera name to "projectedCam"

Select the cave model > Assign the material (Surface Shader)

Out color > File (right click mouse > Create as projection)

Proj Type > Perspective

Filter Type: Off

Assign the bg file

Cam Projection Attri:

Link to Camera: ProjectedCamShape

Create another camera

Render setting: Maya Software

Quality: Production Quality

HD 1080

Renderable camera: camera (NOT the ProjectedCam)

Render as PNG Sequence

Set the amount of frames according to shot

Rendering > Render > Batch Render

For Close up shots, mostly use dolly in or out for camera movement

Save,

Save as Maya ASCII

In the Maya ASCII file:

Create Locators > Snap it to the Cave Mesh

Delete the Cave Mesh (only keep the locators and camera)

Select the Locators

Export Selection as Maya ASCII

Import the ASCII file into After Effects

In After Effects-

C: Move between tools

Create Null > Make the layer 3D

Copy and Paste the position amount from Camera to Null

Delete the keyframes in Null

Parent or link the camera to Null

Scale the Null 100 bigger

Unlink the camera and Null

Copy the CH animation into the BG layer

Make the CH 3D

Create Adjustment Layer

Add Fast Box Blur

Repeat Edge Pixel (tick)

Save FG as PNG from psd

Import to AE

I put it into practice (I didn't have to, but I did)

I did it (need to work on PNG's exports)

We have a game plan

We will start with S02. Then move to S03. The last one is S04, as it is the biggest and hardest one with the most effects