2D people lighting issue

[nelpiper]

Hi guys. It's been a while.

I'm starting to deal with 2D people to be composited and I'm stuck with this issue. How to match the lighting from MAX to the 2D people inside After Effects? Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

[tayrona]

IMO: Photoshop is the key.. maybe this tutorial could help

 

http://www.cgdigest.com/people-in-3d-renderings/

[epictor.com]

i can only give some basic tips:

 

 

• - take 2d cutouts which have roughly the same lighting as your scene. most important if you have direkt lighting [hard shadows] or not on your people and in your scene (our images hold some tagged keywords to make this easier)
   
  the absolute exact lighting is not that important, the human eye won't notice if its a bit off. and of course, don't forget to flip the image if needed .)
   
  
• - render out some dummies. we always place 3d dummies in scenes at points of interest (meaning where later 2d cutouts are put in).
   
  it makes it much easier to get the scale right and the shadow direction
   
   
  
• - last but not least, adjust the cutouts in photoshop (or after effects). you need to put some adjustment layers on top of them, though which depends on every image.
  

 

hope this helped a bit ..

 

cheers,

 

felix