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DoF rain in AE?
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Artflame Noir 172 posts30 Mar 2007so here's an intro I've made for a band.. it's called Irina and Storm.. and this is basically to run before each of their videos..
http://www.mediamax.com/artflamenoir/Hosted/jjj.mov
(edit) - please put your volume down.. some heavy thunder running in it...
I'm quite happy about it but there is a question of rain.. as you can see, the rain here is just 2D..
anyone knows how I could get it more interactive and DoF friendly? I assume it's some particle stuff, but I'm not that good at it yet... -
andyburm 35 posts31 Mar 2007I am not sure how you made the rain but there are many ways to achieve a depth look...
In the past, I got pretty good results using CC rain (cycore filters).
The key is to put the effect on an empty comp inside your main comp rather than the footage layer (in your case the logo). Using an empty comp will create an alpha channel for the rain and you can have several 3d comp layers offset in Z-space (in front of and behind your logo).
All you need is a Camera to get DOF.
Another possibilities would be Trapcode Particular.
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31 Mar 2007i can't watch that clip here at work (this comp doesn't have the codec or something), but a super simple way to get some DOF on there is like andyburm says, make 3 different layers of it - a foreground, midground, and background. obviously, the drops should be smaller as they go back.
then just add some lens or box blur to the FG ones and a little to the BG ones. -
Artflame Noir 172 posts31 Mar 2007aahhh... I've been thinking something along those lines of just making several layers of rain in Z-space.. and adding blur.. couldn't try it yet tho as had to show the stuff to a client and then travel..
I'm that proficient with trapcode particular, but I guess it aould be the best for it...as there is that final camera move when it dives down..and there it's pretty clear that this rain sucks..
it a CC rain but just flad out on 2d layer..
lemme try your ideas and get back to you on it..
tho if anyone has some guidelines for how to do it with particles, please lemme know. -
Jonathan 480 posts10 Apr 2007Nicely done, however I cannot even make out the name in the second part, which makes it sorta pointless to have as an advertisement.
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Artflame Noir 172 posts11 Apr 2007I'll be making a new version of it for advertisement purposes.. this is more as an intro before the music video starts.. most TV start rolling the video before it hits the air, so I made this as a "placeholder" of sorts..
this is just to set up the whole visual feel of it, rather than use as an Ad.
btw.. I figured something with trapcode.. but I'm still trying to figure out how to set up bouncing of the rain when it hit those layers.. for some strange reason classical bounce wall tech doesn't seem to work.
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