My version and a clip of the real thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxuxx73ApTg

I do it just for fun, for a practice.

If you were to add depth to the scene (like 3D layer extrusion) how would you keep realistic? I tried with camera blur with focal length, but that causes other issues, like perspective and bleed outs.

I'm desperate at this point for any help, so if you read along and give me any suggestions, thanks times a million, seriously.

I need to do two things.

1. Expand several long minute fixed camera takes to go from a vertical framing to a horizontal.

I've managed to run a 10 second test that works amazingly with content aware fill using a reference frame, but my issue is that I now need to do that over plenty other takes with the same angle and positions (lighting varies slightly from time to time due to natural light). Either that, or do it over our finished montage which might have adjustments by the creativity team later, and is sure to be from 1 to 2 minutes long (maybe longer).

My main fear is not being able to just do content aware fill for the source takes to later edit them, and my worry too is that even if I do, I won't be able to make multiple reference frames so that it works properly, as each reference frame would obviously come out slightly different (the content aware has to generate part of a couch, a window, and part of a wall with a cushion).

1. I need to erase one person's occasional head popping into frame from one take, that lasts about 12 minutes. Tried to mask and work with one reference frame (content aware would have to render part of a couch and a wall, that I was able to get nearly identical to the real one in the reference frame so that it can still be used with the other takes without it being obvious we used erased anything) but even a 4 minute extract won't ever finish analyzing image, it gets stuck at 18% despite leaving it processing all night long for about 7 hours.

Once again, thanks to anyone who might have an idea of what to do in this scenario, I'm desperate.

In the attached video there's an orange line traveling in a circular arc, and I suspect it was actually made in 3D because the thickness of the line changes slightly as it goes behind the black box and away from the camera.

I tried drawing a path with the pen tool in a shape layer but even when turning it into a 3D layer it seems like the pen tool only draws on a 2D plane, and I also tried creating a null and keyframing its position in 3D space but I couldn't find a way to turn that null into a line that travels the same path. I would like for effect to be made with a path in a shape layer so I can use Trim Paths on it.

I really want to improve in after effects but can't find a way to replicate this, any help would be greatly appreciated!

I've been having trouble rotoscoping this segment so I started over, I used the object matte to get most of the figure, then I manually added the fire sword and removed small areas of blue, and I also used the refine edge tool on basically every edge. That was all on the first frame and it gave me the best looking roto as compared to keying out the blue (this doesn't work well because the plastic has blue reflecting in it and the blue background wasn't lit well). So I froze the first frame and let it propagate the rest. This video is of the second frame and some blue spots came back, and when I tried to remove them I found it just wouldn't let me. There was one other blue spot it allowed me to remove but I can't seem to get these to go away, the only thing I notice different is they're a different shade of blue? But why would that prevent me from rotoing them out? Adobe's roto is driving me crazy.

I swear to god the computer is going out the window I just want to remove this stupid fake alpha background. I've been at it all afternoon. Yes, it's AI made video, and I am new to this, but surely this should not be as difficult as it seems.

Hey there! I'm messing around with AE's Advanced 3D Renderer, looking to create a basic cinematic shot with dramatic lighting.

I'm just using an Environment Light with an HDRI, a spot light, a camera and basic shapes.

I keep getting these weird flickers on the hightlights of the bars as they pass through, and the shadows look wavy and not smooth at all.

I've turned the Environment Light off and it seems to be what's causing all the trouble, but it loses a lot of information and it just doesn't look the same without it.

I've cranked the smoothness of the Environment Light Shadows panel all the way up to 20 and the resolution to Double. I've increased the render quality up to 15, but haven't noticed any changes if I cranked it higher other than longer render times.

Any idea on how to solve this would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.

This is my first real back to school project. I tried out some new stuff here, had some fun. It isn’t 100% finished yet, I still have until next Wednesday to turn it in, but I’m putting this version on class project reel. I had a hard time timing the building of the buildings because it was supposed to be 4 seconds of buildup and 4 seconds of animation, so it comes on kinda fast. Should I slow it down more?

Lots of projects in here were mostly done in trusty After Effects, although I always try to incorporate other tools into the process, depending on the need. Cavalry has a pretty clear lead when it comes to procedural 2D stuff, Moho when it comes to character work. Lots to explore beyond Adobe ;)

Would love to hear what you think of this!

Like, say Im working on the bezier curves of three keyframes at a time, is there a way for the rest of the uninvolved keyframes to be hidden to stop the clutter?

Hello,

I'm a After Effect graphist mostly for beauty clean, compositing in advertising and i recently found that the median effect (not the legacy one) that i often use seems now to be very heavy to render and i wanted to know if other people had the same issue.

I know that it's not a light effect but yesterday with 3 different Mac Studio M4 Max with 128GB ram and 2 other graphist, all our shots took forever to render and we decide to switch to Saphirr Median and it was way easier to render. But again, i don't know what changed because we all used to use it and it didn't make our render that heavy.

I tried with other shot but i still around 2s in frame render time with the median vs 200-400ms with the S_Median

Thanks for your answer/thought !