Thursday, 7 May 2009

How to Apple Motion Graphics, After Effects style motion camera pan depth of field


I hope to add a motion graphics tutorial here shortly for this piece I've recently finished for a client produced using Apple's Motion 3. I've created it through a series of scanned images, converted to B&W, composited as one PSD photoshop file which I've imported to Motion 3 as layers and 3D space. I've then split the layers, giving them more 'Z' space between them, resized to correct for the wide angle effect caused by the camera.

Now when the camera pans back through the layers you get a depth of field of items moving independently. The outer boarder motifs are on a separate 2D layer which are unaffected by the camera movement. Quite a few of the items are cloned layers, so I've only had to edit a few motion masks then move the timings around of each clone to give more of a mixed up drawing effect with minimal effort. Finally some gradient blends, line pass filters, and colour treatments give the final result.

hope to have video and more concise tutorial shortly, alongside a few other motion graphic video pieces I've been working on.

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