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James Bending
02-04-2003, 07:11 PM
Hello

Ok, my problem is that i have created a 2D animation of a person walking into the camera view and then sitting down on a chair. (The animation has been exported as a 720 x 576 .avi file)

The chair (the 2D person will sit down on) has been made in 3D as will the background.

Because the 2D character is interacting with a 3D enviroment it has to be exactly in synch when i import the 3D animation and 2D animation into Adobe Premiere so that i can merge them both together as a single avi file.

The current way i am trying to do this, is by setting up a background in 3DSMAX with my 2D animation avi file and then placing the 3D objects around the character but then when i zoom in and pan and do all sorts of other camera tricks everything just looks like its out of place. (see attached screen shot)

Any suggestions how a glue the two things together?

Thanks alot for your time

James
LFShade
02-04-2003, 08:33 PM
There is a lock zoom/pan option for background images, but I'd actually recommend mapping the 2d animation to a plane instead.
James Bending
02-04-2003, 10:32 PM
Argh, never follow a link from hotmail, type in a long reply, then when submitting, realise that the stupid hotmail top frame is buggering up the login for cgtalk. Hit the back button and copy your written message so you can paste it back into the 'reply' page again (this time without that stupid hotmail frame) but then (and this is where it goes all wrong) copy something else, ... and realise you just copied crap into the reply box, not your original message of which you have now copied over and closed the window to.

but anyway...now i cant be bothered to re-write what i originally said so thanks anyway for the help ;)

James
paperclip
07-05-2004, 07:32 PM
alternatively, you could animate the 2d in 3DSmax, however instead of making it 3 d, you could make it flat...does this make sense? This way you'll have a lot more control over what you're doing.:D Cheers.
neiy0
03-07-2005, 01:40 PM
i don
t know how old this thread is, but my suggestion is that you could render your 3D stuff with a green background then in premier use the green screen effect, so that all you see is the chair and not the background..?
Ls3D
03-07-2005, 06:01 PM
I would go RPF into AfterEffects, extract the camera & there you have it, full 2D/3D sync.

-S
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