silviapalara Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 I am curious to know if anybody in Architectural Visualization renders in layers (i.e. occlusion, specular, shadow, etc) and then composite them in After Effects, Shake, or similar. Silvia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Cassil Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 For stills I always render like that. However, I haven't had enough experience with compositing to start doing it for animation yet. It's on my to do list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanSpaulding Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 I wish Vue5Infinite did this, but it does not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 I do that for stills. Haven't for animation...yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MandelbrotJr Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Ryan, in fact Vue5 does it pretty well, I've been trying Vue5Inf for the last few days and within the rendering options you can specify the layer structure you want it to render, at least on stills, haven't tried it on animation yet but I would guess it's the same.. Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silviapalara Posted March 6, 2006 Author Share Posted March 6, 2006 Ok so I am not the only one... I am curious, why would you do it for stills and not for animations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Cassil Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 For stills, all you need is PS, but for animation you need compositing software like combustion, or something even more high end like NUKE. I think after effects can do it but I'm not sure how well. Even then a lot of people only have premiere which will not get you there. Also, I think compositing in general is new to most arch-viz folks. With time it will become more and more a part of typical production, even for animation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShaunDon Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 I had been using combustion for awhile, but it's so expensive and smaller firms like us cringe at the cost of a max license. We did a collaborative project with Neoscape last year and they do all their compositing in After Effects -- I made the switch and gave it a try, and honestly I like it more than combustion. Very fast and responsive in loading frames. Could use some more blending modes, but so could combustion. Shaun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Cassil Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 I made the switch and gave it a try, and honestly I like it more than combustion. That's good to know Shaun. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silviapalara Posted March 6, 2006 Author Share Posted March 6, 2006 I think AfterEffects is a good choice, for what concerns price and ease of use. There are so many good books out there for AfterEffects, that you can be up and running in no time. I never used Combustion but I hear only good things about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 havent in animation yet. and rarely do it for stills either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthony cortez Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 I always render my animations and stills out in layers and composite them together in post. I love the finessing you can do with lighting, zdepth, motion blur, ambient occlussion, etc. Being able to marry various software packages together can only be done through compositing. For example, one project we produced involved 3D Max for the architectural environment, Maya paint fx for cattail reeds, Vue5I for trees, and Softimage Behaivior for crowds. As far as compositing applications goes, I've used Aftereffects and FXTree in the past, but lately switched over to Combustion for it's GBuffer builder and it's integration with Max. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Cassil Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 I always render my animations and stills out in layers and composite them together in post. I love the finessing you can do with lighting, zdepth, motion blur, ambient occlussion, etc. Being able to marry various software packages together can only be done through compositing. For example, one project we produced involved 3D Max for the architectural environment, Maya paint fx for cattail reeds, Vue5I for trees, and Softimage Behaivior for crowds. As far as compositing applications goes, I've used Aftereffects and FXTree in the past, but lately switched over to Combustion for it's GBuffer builder and it's integration with Max. Can we see that animation? Sounds really cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthony cortez Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 Hi Brian, Can't really upload anything since its still in production. You can check out our website which has some other examples of what I was talking about. http://www.3d-mg.com Cheers, Anthony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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