Flying though pipes?


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Flying though pipes?
by Meg Stacey on Aug 4, 2008 at 6:58:28 pm

What's a good way to make it look like your camera is going through pipes? Im stumped. Thanks!

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Re: Flying though pipes?
by Dave LaRonde on Aug 4, 2008 at 7:50:40 pm

Would that be like flying through a tunnel?

Tell you what: click on the Adobe After Effects Tutorials link above. Use your browser's search function to search for the word "tunnel".

Lots o' good stuff in those tutorials.

Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA

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Re: Flying though pipes?
by Daryl Booth on Aug 4, 2008 at 9:35:01 pm

Hi,

I used the flying through pipes set up only a couple of months ago, they way I performed it was as follows.

1: Create pipe in 3dsMax and make it the length you require.
2: Use deform tool to create bends/kinks in it.
3: Add desired material (i used a hi res dirt pic)
4: Make camera in 3ds and postion light within the tunnel spaced for even lighting
5: key frame camera along tunnel rotating and pitching for organic flight feel
6: save out animation (using png filetype and retaining alpha channel
7: import phg sequence into after fx for post adjustments.
8: Live happiy ever after

also Andrew Kramer deal a little in this type of thing in a 3d room tutorial he did at video copilot. You could adapt that to suit if your tunnel does not need to be rounded...

I use that second method on the opening sequence for this clip

salutations from codemonkey

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