Illustrator Vectorfiles in AE 3D Space - Blurry??
by Karim Daire (karim)
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Jan 16, 2008 at 11:35:01 pm
Hello,
I always run into this problem and up to now slitherer around it with cheating but that can't be it... I hope!
I got a multilayer Illustrator File to animate... lets say a compass. I place my layers in one composition, animate them and throw it in a new PAL composition for 3D Animation and rendering it. Now when I turn the composition into 3D and want to animate a camera move on it to turn up real close the composition gets blurry. The usual hint is turning "continuously rasterize" on, but I did this. I did it in my source layers in the basic animation comp and I do it on my layer in the final 3D composition. But if I turn on "continously rasterize" I can't use the layer in 3D space.
Please someone tell me you don't have to prepare a 5000by5000 Pixel composition to animate the basics and then throw this in an new comp for 3D Animation like a large photoshop file. Thats the way I always cheated but its damn slow and pretty ridiculous when working with vector images. Someone please lead me to the magic button I never found! :)
Found the solution - now theres no shadows! :( by Karim Daire on Jan 17, 2008 at 12:11:13 am
I don't believe it... I found the magic button by mistake! I turned on 3D also for the objects I animated in 2D in my source footage and now I get crisp zooms.. thank god.
Anyway... I got a new problem now.... SIncle Illustrator layers throw shadows in 3D Space. Compositions with precomposed vector footage don't. I cando complex nested 3D Animations with vectors but only with collapse transformations in my source composition turned on. No Shadows there... as soon as I turn it off I get a flat layer in 3D space again... and a shadow. Is that right?
Re: Found the solution - now theres no shadows! :( by Darby Edelen on Jan 17, 2008 at 5:11:48 am
[Karim Daire]"SIncle Illustrator layers throw shadows in 3D Space. Compositions with precomposed vector footage don't. I cando complex nested 3D Animations with vectors but only with collapse transformations in my source composition turned on. No Shadows there... as soon as I turn it off I get a flat layer in 3D space again... and a shadow. Is that right?"
When you have Collapse Transformations enabled on a composition, the material settings on that composition no longer apply, the material options are inherited from the layers inside the composition.
You need to set your vector graphics to continuously rasterize in the pre-comp, then make them 3D layers, enable motion blur on them (if you want it) and change their material options to 'Cast Shadows' on... all inside the pre-comp.
Darby Edelen Designer Left Coast Digital Santa Cruz, CA
