Digital-Tutors: Stereoscopic 3D in After Effects (2009) | 619 Mb

Stereoscopic 3D in After Effects - An in-depth guide to creating stereoscopic 3D imagery in post production. Create 3D experiences directly in After Effects. Learn how to make stereoscopic 3D imagery and gain a deeper understanding of mathematics of stereo imagery, tips for creating safer stereo renders, and building camera rigs to create one of the most powerful effects in cinema.

Contains nearly 3 hours of project-driven training and step-by-step examples for any artist using After Effects.

Type: Tutorial

Release Date: 02/13/2009

Publisher: Digital-Tutors

Homepage: www.digitaltutors.com/09/training.php?cid=26&pid=3612

Language: English

Software: After Effects 7 and up (After Effects CS4 required to open project files)

Platform: Mac / PC

Run Time: 2 hrs. 50 min., 1 discs

Format: CD-ROM

Popular highlights include:

- Stereoscopy Overview

- Rules of Safe Stereo

- Anaglyph Filtering

- Stereo 3D workflow

- Camera Rigs

- 3D Objects in After Effects

- Mathematics of Stereo Imagery

- Creating Interactive Guides to Help Visualize

- Color Correcting Stereo Imagery

- Composting Stereo Pair Renders from Maya

- Expressions

- Controlling Zero Parallax

- Interaxial Separation

- Creating a Camera Dolly System

- Animating Cameras with Dolly System

- Photoshop 3D Layers

- 3D Assets with Photoshop

- Assembling Multiple Compositions with Expressions

- Zero Parallax Controls in 3D Scene

- Interaxial Separation Controls

- Avoiding Keystoning and Other Stereo Distortions

- Creating a Stereo Camera Rig for Photoshop 3D Objects

Lesson Outline:

1. Introduction and Project Overview 2:52

2. Creating an Anaglyphic Stereo set-up 11:32

3. Setting up the Zero Parallax 4:06

4. Building a control system to edit the Zero Parallax point 10:34

5. Creating a camera dolly system and separation controls 12:41

6. Building a center camera rig 13:38

7. Cleaning up the project and adding render comps 8:16

8. Applying Safe Stereo rules to control maximum disparity 11:27

9. Building a Safe Stereo visualization tool 22:29

10. Creating a visualization representation of the Safe Zone 13:58

11. Cleaning up the final Stereo rig for easier animation 4:55

12. Defining Stereoscopics 1;22

13. Analyzing the different filter types 4:52

14. Covering the rules of Safe Stereo 3:49

15. Compositing Stereo pair renders from Maya 8:57

16. Preparing an OBJ in Maya for use in Photoshop 4:25

17. Importing 3D layers from Photoshop into After Effects 8:17

18. Setting up the Stereo rig to work with Photoshop 3D layers 8:15

19. Tying together the Photoshop 3D Controllers 4:56

20. Color correcting for Anaglyph renders 8:08