Using After Effects to composite image sequences rendered from Maya opens up a large number of possibilities and offers flexibility that is hard to achieve using Maya alone. While on the one hand a little extra work, foresight, and some knowledge of After Effects is required, the payoff for the additional effort is usually worth it. You don’t need to master every aspect of After Effects to take advantage of this workflow. A few simple tricks and techniques can add a lot of life and character to your animation. The techniques described in this tutorial are the same techniques used in design houses when creating animations for the entertainment industry.
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This tutorial is a continuation of the “VIllus Capillary” tutorial where you went through the basics of creating a Maya scene from A-to-Z. You’re now ready to stitch together a final movie from the individual sequences of images that were rendered in Maya. In addition to simply ‘stitching’ the sequences together, we will explore a few different compositing tasks as well. For example, there are benefits to rendering a single image/shot into multiple ‘render passes’ where different elements of the scene are separated out onto different layers and rendered independently with an alpha channel (i.e. transparency information).
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Welcome to the AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorials Getting More Information Saving Your Tutorial Drawings Chapter 2 Getting Started Tutorials Tutorial: Using Basic Functionality Tutorial: Understanding the Workspace Tutorial: Using the Panorama Window Tutorial: Changing the Display of An Object Tutorial: Using the Object Viewer Tutorial: Using Labels Exercise 1: Moving Individual Labels Exercise 2: Changing Label Appearance Exercise 3: Controlling Label Appearance Using Layers Exercise 4: Overriding Label Text
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This tutorial is a continuation of the first tutorial Composite Application Tutorial I: NSF Components. In this tutorial, we will be adding an eclipse view to the composite application. The view will make use of the property broker in order to receive a published property from the All Documents Notes view. The Category of the selected document in the Notes view will be displayed in the eclipse view. Chapter 2. Prereqs
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