Compositing 3D Assets in After Effects
In this video tutorial we cover how to composite 3D assets in After Effects with a cool phone animation.
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Joey Korenman (00:17): Joey here at School of Motion and welcome to day 29 of 30 Days of After Effects. Today's video is going to be about compositing animation from after effects with 3d animation, from cinema 40. This is a very common thing you have to do as a motion graphics artists. And we're going to talk about how to really lock those two programs together and get your 2d animation from after effects to sync up 3d animation from cinema 4d, we're going to use pre-rendered elements, but we're also going to use CINAware to pull in information. I'm going to show you a lot of compositing tricks. It's going to be awesome. Don't forget to sign up for a free student account so you can grab the project files from this lesson, as well as from any other lesson on school emotion. Now let's hop into after effects and get started.
Joey Korenman (01:00): So in this video, we are going to cover how to sync up your after effects animation with 3d renders using cinema 4d. And we're going to sort of go over a lot of other compositing things, including using multi-layered EXR files and a lot of really geeky cool stuff. So let's talk about, first of all, what are, what are starting elements are here? So I'm gonna hop into cinema 4d and show you my project. Now I'm not going to get too deep into this, cause this is not a cinema 4d tutorial. I'm using cinema 4d, AR 15. And if you have cinema 4d light, and that's the only version that you have, the free one that comes with after effects, that's okay. You can do this entire tutorial, the exact same way. I'm not using any special features. Really all that's going on is you've got an iPhone model and it spins around and kind of lands in that's it all right.
Joey Korenman (01:52): And, um, what I want to be able to do is composite, whatever I want onto that screen in after effects. And so let me, let me just do a quick render here and show you what this looks like. Um, you know, I've lit this in a specific way, uh, actually just using, um, one of the presets that comes with cinema 4d called the array light. And then I used a couple of, um, of just planes with a white texture on it. And I used that, so that it actually gives me a nice reflection on the phone. And I also rendered with global illumination, which is why it's taking forever to render for you guys. Uh, but here it goes. So this nice diagonal highlight that's going across the phone that you sort of see on a lot of cell phone commercials, that is actually just a reflection.
Joey Korenman (02:44): Um, and I want to make sure that I'm able to keep that when I, um, you know, when I composite something in the screen, so I'm gonna show you how to do that. So the first thing you need to do is you need to make sure that you prepare this cinema four D file a certain way. Okay. And what I mean is, um, you need to make sure that if you want to stick something on this screen, you need to have a reference object in the scene that you can then import into after effects. So if I open up this phone, now this is the Knoll. That's holding all the pieces of the phone and here's the front of the phone. And here's the screen of the phone. And even the screen has multiple pieces is a pretty detailed model. Um, and this cap one object here.
Joey Korenman (03:24): If I, uh, here, let me, let me go forward here and jump into my isometric views here. You can see that that object has its anchor point, right in right smack dab in the center of the phone and right on the surface of the phone. So if I was somehow able to get a Knoll that mimicked exactly what that screen is doing and get that into after effects, then all I'd have to do is parent my animation to that novel. And so that's exactly how you can composite stuff in after effects in cinema 40. The only thing you need to make sure is that on your object that you want to bring into cinema 4d, you need to have this tag, okay. Now I'm not going to go too deep into tags, but you basically right. Click your object or control click. You go to cinema 4d tags, and you put an external compositing tag on it.
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after 6 years of this tutorial, it is still the best out there that handles that topic, really appreciate your effort here, many thanks
DUDE!!! your awesome i searched alot of tutorials for do that and never could find it, you have great tecniques and very good explanation, seriously your the best !! keep with the good work
Great Tutorial! A lot of Information. Thanks joey!
Dude amazing all in one tutorial amazing
So amazing channel. great tutorial. Ty😊
great tutorial, thank you ;)
thank you for this great tutorial
Very thorough foundation of knowledge here.. i can't believe I didn't know all this EXR stuff, very effective thank you
@schoolofmotion
4 жыл бұрын
You're quite welcome!
amazing information! lots of Lot from Uganda
Thanks you!
Thank you sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much!
great tutorial
HEy, it was a great tutorial, We learn a lot of things thnx, But i wanna make a point on the part when the screen plane wasnt scaled inoff for covering and u used the fast blur, i think if u used the Motiontile on the object buffer its better becz u can straight the matte perfectly and complete this holes in the Edges , sorry for my english but i guess you get the IDEA :D
man you are great
@schoolofmotion
7 жыл бұрын
awh shucks.
Awesome tutorial! I have a question though. How do I mask the custom content? Whenever the phone rotates and we see the back of it, the see the content from the back, and in your tutorial it is masked perfectly. How do you solve this? The only option I found is to make the layer play until that point in the composition and then cut it out or in. The same goes if I want add a logo on the back of a mobile device or any other object. Thanks in advance ;-)
Hey Joey. Thank you so much for this tutorial video. I have learned a lot of things about compositing in after effects and cinema 4D. I have a problem with using "RSMB Pro Vector". when I use these effects on my pre-comp, all the things get blurred, even the screen when it doesn't any movement! just have an x and y blur on this. but when I use the "RSMB" effect, this problem has solved, but the main motion blur is not really good as the "RSMB Pro Vector" one.
Hey after following along with the tutorial with C4D lite, it looks like the Bake Objects function is unavailable in C4d lite. Just a heads up :)
Thx ! Thank u very much ! Im try to solve this problem, cant find any info how to do placeholders for c4d projects in AE. Your video is very helpfull ! Thx a lot ! Vish u all the best !
hi thanks allot ...its will work the same wit octan render ?
Great thx. 15.55 I´d expect to see only a white rectangle (for the screen of the phone), because layer is soloed. But I CAN see the phone itself plus the BG even if they´re darker. But is that right?
hi...for me its not showing any layer within 3d Chanel Extracter why...?But i added AO and Mvector also...Please tell me
Why is it needed to bake the animation keyframes in Cinema 4D? What is causing the misinterpretation, Is this simply a limitation in translating from 3D to 2.5D? In other words, do other 3D applications exhibit this issue with external composite tracking? Thanks for this tutorial!
For some reason the Track Matte option disappears when I set the video layer to 3D. I must be missing something. Any ideas?
Thanks, but do you have a new lesson using versions closer to C4D R21 and AE 2020? That or a full tutorial on this process? I tried following but would like a step-by step of this process even if it's a paid tutorial. I'll pay because screen replacement is something I do regularly, and I've been using Element 3D as a workaround, but would prefer the advanced tools and look of C4D (or Maya).
@schoolofmotion
4 жыл бұрын
Hi there! This is an older tutorial but the concepts should still apply to newer versions of Cinema 4D.
boy, none of this is working for me at all. I have stuff that is not being seen by the camera, the nulls are nowhere near the spot they need to be, etc.
Sanks))
that extractor popup does't bring any layers....layers drop down is empty.....pls help me
My phone render is not match up pixel perfectly to the Cineware Preview. What should I do please help ??
very useful tut i want ask how make a reflation in c4d
@schoolofmotion
5 жыл бұрын
That's a great suggestion. Thanks for sending it!
@schoolofmotion, in 19:15 you parented the video to cap1 to follow its animation and do luma to matte. but why dont you just precompose the Cap 1 and inside it add your video
is this possible with Blender ? thank you
HELP! I tried this method but when I got to importing the EXR files, and "extractoring", it's not showing the layers! I am usaing C4D R23..
I cant do this i dont know but in my proyect isn't work
Great tut years later, but still Kind of a pain for me to follow through 😢
Водолей. Столько воды. Когда мог по факту все сказать.