Photorealistic composited TEXT! HELP!!

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Have you ever done any digital compositing work before? If not, then its gonna take some work. It would take a while to explain how to do it, but to be simple, Ill spell out what renders you are gonna need to use to get the best results. Its how they render cg elements in movies. You are gonna Need an Ambient Occlusion render, A Global Illumination render, An RGB render, A shadow render, A Diffuse render, A Specular render, A reflection render, And Also are probably gonna want to Render out an Hmatte too. These are just the most basic ones, most movies and high end stuff make multiple renders of each, but these are starting points for it. There are even certain blending modes and stuff for each that are used in photoshop/after effects to make things easier. Oh, also, you are gonna want to camera match your Text to fit the scene. I dont know about maya, but max has a tutorial about it in the help files. Camera matching is pritty simple, its just taking an object that you already know the dimensions of, making a 3d copy, real rough, like a box or something, and then setting up points on the picture and the box so that the camera will automatically align itself to fit the dimensions. These are some things that you can look up and probably find some good info on it. Good luck.

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