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Adobe After Effects
This project will require large amounts of green screen to composite real video on CG Animation produced by Adam in Maya. Adobe Aftereffects is the package which Bryon has decided to use to composite video footage. Aftereffects is designed for the most demanding production environments, which combines the core 2D real video image, and 3D compositing animation.
Aftereffects has a powerful motion tracker to lock-on any element with fast accuracy to allow the user to track change in scale, or just horizontal or vertical movement; this means that the user has the capability of tracking 3d animation to real video shot to complete the feel of realism, making the audience think that the object is really there.
Another time saving feature of Aftereffects is its ability to allow the user to import multi-layered images from Photoshop, one layer at a time. Each layer can be manipulated separately to achieve a highly complex orchestration of moving, changing elements.
Another key feature that is useful in Aftereffects is the mask technique. The masking effect is used to tidy up the footage, by removing the video information which is not in the mask. This mask can be changed for every frame to suit the new situation giving the user the best result.
The Advanced particle system gives the user the chance to simulate explosions, lighting, and other powerful particle systems. The user can also add behaviors such as repel and gravity to the animation, to the extreme that even text can be affected by particles!
Other features include multi-composites, keying - this allows the computer to mask anything to do with colour key information which has been chosen by the user, so as to only leave the important elements in the video footage, ready to merge with the real video footage.
Page written by Bryon.
For addition information you may want to visit their web site at http://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects/main.html