Overview
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Transport your photos into a three-dimensional world using Adobe Photoshop and After Effects.
Syllabus
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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
