Compositing 3D Renders in After Effects
In this After Effects tutorial, we'll learn how to bring in multiple 3D render passes and composite the resulting image on top of a photograph using many tools and techniques. Software required: After Effects CS4 for project files.
What you'll learn
In this After Effects tutorial, we'll learn how to bring in multiple 3D render passes and composite the resulting image on top of a photograph using many tools and techniques. We'll begin the tutorial by importing our layers and assembling them into a nice render of a car. We'll then learn how to create an advanced matte to cut out our car using the shadow, indirect, and matte layers. We'll then learn several compositing tricks to help us really blend the foreground and background, such as reflection matching, lightwraping, color correction, and grain matching. Software required: After Effects CS4 for project files.
Table of contents
- Using Blend Modes to Layer 3D Render Passes 4m
- Using the Brightness Contrast Effect to Fix the Refraction 5m
- Changing the Car Color Using a Hue Saturation Effect 4m
- Adding the Shadow Pass and Dealing with Alpha Issues 4m
- Using the Luma Track Matte to Cut Out Our Car 4m
- Adding the Shadows to Our Matte 7m
- Using Color Correct Tools to Match Our Reflection 5m
- Creating a Lightwrap Effect to Blend the Background and Car 10m
- Adding a Matte Choke to Fix a Black Outline 6m
- Color Correcting the Tires by Drawing Masks 7m
- Color Correcting the Windshield Using Keying Effects 6m
- Color Correcting the Shadow to Match the Background 7m
- Using the Match Grain Effect for That Final Level of Detail 5m
About the author
Along with creating and recording training, he also used to manage the support team and work closely with the production development team at Digital-Tutors, now a Pluralsight company. He began his career working freelance and quickly realized that he wanted to find a company where he could use his talents to help people succeed in the CG industry. Chris has likely watched more Pluralsight creative training than anyone on the planet, and its evidenced by his Einstein-sized brain and encyclopedic... more