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YankyBJeans
10-11-2003, 09:45 AM
Hi all. I am working on an animation where I have a static book open to a page and on that page is a picture, but the picture is moving as the scene would in true life (ex. the scene in The Craft where the book picture of the galleon comes alive and the galleon is sailing in the storm).

I am unsure as to how to setup/render this scene out and in what parts/angles so as to facilitate compositing of all the parts back together later. My scene includes a book, and the picture will have a scene with some particles and objects interacting. The shot has the camera slowly moving towards the book, zooming in from a shot of the entire book to a closer shot showing the picture on the page but still some of the rest of the page and its text. Id like to have the picture come alive from being static, but Ill setlle for having it moving already if its easier.

Thanks in advance for any help

Yanky

I am using Maya 5 for the scene setup and After Effects for the comp.
I will post this in the compositing area as well.
Hugh
10-11-2003, 10:30 AM
I'd suggest creating and rendering out the scene that wants to go onto the page first - and then apply this render to the book page as a texture. (Holding the first frame if you want it to start static and then come alive)

this kind of thing should be really easy in CG - it gets difficult when you want to to it with a live-action book ;)

What you might also want to do is take your rendered sequence, take it into a compositing package, and create the whole page, including text and the paper texture, and then apply this onto the page. This way you could have your moving image blending nicely into the paper at the edges
YankyBJeans
10-11-2003, 09:20 PM
those are some good ideas. anyone else have a take on this?

Yanky
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