[討論]Maya+After Effects

[yanronald]

I have planned to use maya to build up my model and animation, and I use mental ray to render the realistic part(building for example), however, does mental ray support fluid effect in maya 5?

On the other hand, i know that using after effects can do layering and looks like a 3D scene, but what kind of files should I render in maya so that I can import it into AE?

Thanks

[tylau]

差唔多全部FORMAT都可以IMPORT入去...
我就用開PIC/TGA SEQ.

[yanronald]

But i have a problem that the rla file rendered by mental ray do not contain the z depth information. In addition, it has made one more file about the depth information in the format of .iff , so how do i use it to make a 3D look in AE?

Thanks

[h2o]

"3d look" ..... 唔系好明? depth 只可以做景深, out focus & fog 呢d 效果.

[yanronald]

3D look means have layer effect when the camera is dolly in

[winfred01]

in AE, u can mainpulate the position of layer by your self...and you don't really need Z-depth.... for layer effect

[johngalliano]

for z-depth thing, u can render iff images, it has z-depth channel, u can copy the z-channel to the alpha channel and do the blur with some sort of mask blur. It is easy to do in Shake though i forgot the operation quite a bit. Maybe AE also have some sort of pluggin to do it
One thing is,..u need to know the depth near and far info, u can check it with fcheck. But for a sequence with depth varies a lot, then i dunno how to get the depth info easily,...maybe u need someone to write a little program for u to automate the task. Ah,..i think that will be a good chance to practice programming.

[raf]

i render iff as depth map but how can i input them as depth channel in AE?

[johngalliano]

Use Shake or other compositing software. Maybe there is pluggin for AE to read z-channel,..i am not sure.