Overview
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Learn practical techniques for making architectural renderings of buildings look as if they've been placed into an existing still image or full-motion video.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Communicate your architectural vision with VFX
- Import and track footage in After Effects
- Set the ground plane and reference objects
- Exporting an FBX camera from After Effects
- Importing an FBX camera into Maya
- Importing footage into Maya
- Model export from Revit
- Model export from 3ds Max
- Model UVs and group refine in Houdini
- Import a model into Maya
- Set up sun and sky lighting
- Ground plane
- Create Redshift materials
- Assign materials to model
- Acquire models from the SpeedTree store
- Exporting trees from SpeedTree
- Export a hedge from SpeedTree
- Install a SpeedTree plugin
- Importing a tree into Maya
- Import a hedge into Maya
- Review vegetation
- Creating .rstexbin files
- Object IDs
- Set up matte AOVs
- Set up ambient occlusion AOV
- Refine render settings
- Import footage into After Effects
- Color correct a building
- Color correct trees
- Color correct hedges
- Final render
- Next steps
