Introduction to VFX in Maya and After Effects

Introduction to VFX in Maya and After Effects

“We've reached the end of this course! Thank you for joining me. I do hope you've enjoyed the process. It is now time to work on your project. This could mean finishing the scene you started while completing the exercises or you could start a brand new project! Either way, I strongly suggest you take the time to gather inspiration and make a unique project of your own. Make sure to keep track of your progress with different pictures of each step. It would be great if you could also explain the choices you've made along the way and tell me if you have any doubts. This will help me understand your creative process and guide you better if you need advice. Planning Plan out the sequence and choose or film your own footage.

The 3D Camera Track the footage in SynthEyes and export a 3D camera. The 3D Scene Import your tracked camera and layout your 3D scene in Maya by creating or importing 3D objects. Then, animate the objects in your scene. Lighting and Textures Set up the lighting with Redshift, then assign materials and textures to the 3D objects and add some final touches to the whole. The Render Setup the various render layers and AOVs and render out your scene using Redshift. Once that is done, you can import the files into After Effects and composite everything together. Export your final video and be proud of yourself! I can't wait to see what you have created! Upload your Final Project by clicking on "Create your project". I’ll do my best to respond to each and every one of your comments as soon as possible. In the meantime, participate in the forum, comment on others’ work, and interact with the community! Thank you for trusting me and I hope to hear from you soon! ”

Partial transcription of the video

“This is it. I want to thank you so much for taking the course and I hope you found it useful in creating your own. VFX videos and projects. So just to quickly recap each step of the VFX pipeline that we learned, First, we chose our footage and brought it into After Effects for preparation. Then we moved into SynthEyes for 3D tracking. Next, we brought our 3D camera into Maya for layout and animation. We did our lighting and reflections. Then we set up our materials and textures And then we rendered it. And after that, we brought it back into After Effects for final compositing, color correc...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to VFX in Maya and After Effects

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (42)
• 2559 students
• 5 units
• 30 lessons (7h 5m)
• 7 downloads

• Category

  3D & Animation

• Software

  Adobe After Effects, Maya

• Areas

  3D, 3D Animation, 3D Modeling, Animation, Audiovisual Post-production, Character Animation, Film, Film, Video & TV, Photography Post-production, VFX, Video Editing