Motion Control 3D: Bringing Photos to Life in Three Dimensions with After Effects and Photoshop CC
Overview
Transport your photos into a three-dimensional world using Adobe Photoshop and After Effects.
Have you looked at a photo and wished you were there, or wondered what the scene looked like to the photographer? Now you can bring your photos to life by adding motion and depth. Author Rich Harrington reveals how you can transport your photos into a three-dimensional world using Adobe Photoshop and After Effects. The course shows you how to select the right images and resolutions; how to use masks and layers to build a layered composition in Photoshop; and how to animate and light the elements of the scene in After Effects. The techniques is useful for documentary filmmaking, web content, and TV commercials. Rich even shows how to render your project in full 3D for compatible platforms like YouTube, or in a typical broadcast format suitable for television or streaming.
Have you looked at a photo and wished you were there, or wondered what the scene looked like to the photographer? Now you can bring your photos to life by adding motion and depth. Author Rich Harrington reveals how you can transport your photos into a three-dimensional world using Adobe Photoshop and After Effects. The course shows you how to select the right images and resolutions; how to use masks and layers to build a layered composition in Photoshop; and how to animate and light the elements of the scene in After Effects. The techniques is useful for documentary filmmaking, web content, and TV commercials. Rich even shows how to render your project in full 3D for compatible platforms like YouTube, or in a typical broadcast format suitable for television or streaming.
Syllabus
Introduction
- Creating 3D motion with photos
- What you should know before watching this course
- Exercise files
- The technique explained
- How to use motion control 3D in your projects
- Image selection guidelines
- Resolution guidelines
- Working in color or black and white
- Advice when scanning
- Identifying planes
- Creating a staging diagram
- Understanding parallax
- Choosing a focal length
- Timing the move
- The Quick Selection tool
- Using Quick Mask mode
- The Select and Mask command
- Making a selection based on subject, focus, or color
- Dealing with contact points
- Filling in the holes: Clone Stamp
- Filling in the holes: Healing Brush
- Filling in the holes: Content Aware Fill
- Filling in the holes: Content Aware Move
- Using Perspective Warp
- Removing camera shake
- Using a floor image
- Naming and organizing layers
- Using Smart Objects to organize
- Importing a layered PSD file into After Effects
- Adding a 3D camera
- Setting the initial depth
- Setting the composition size
- Using motion blur
- Using multiple views
- Understanding keyframes
- Modifying camera paths
- Adding camera shake
- Positioning while moving cameras and layers together
- Setting the depth of field
- Changing the focal length and zoom
- Creating a rack focus
- Setting the ambient light
- Adding a parallel light
- Adding spot lights
- Adding point lights
- Using lighting effects
- Using After Effects particles
- Using Trapcode Particular
- Using video files for texture
- Using time-lapse layers
- Time-remapping strategies
- Why use Vanishing Point
- Preparing files in Photoshop
- Cleaning up the files and transparency
- Animating the vanishing point
- Creating a 3D pan
- Adding a Stereo 3D Rig
- Changing the 3D method
- Choosing a render method
- Next steps
Taught by
Richard Harrington
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