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Beer glass scene creation

This course contains a little bit of everything with modeling, UVing, texturing and dynamics in Maya, as well as compositing multilayered EXR's in Photoshop.

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# 1 10-01-2005 , 06:19 PM

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Hello,

I'v rendered My animation in Maya Software renderer .

My Particle Effects with Hardware renderer.

How can I combine the 2 files with AE? After Effects)

Thanks,

Al.

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# 2 11-01-2005 , 10:56 PM

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Assuming AE 6.5/6.0 --

Composition -> New Composition

Then drag and drop your layers, and arrange for whichever's on top.

Remember it has to be in a format which can take alpha channels... for an animation, I prefer to have a copy of "Quicktime Pro" and string them together through that program, saving them as "millions of colors+", the plus being the alpha channel.

You may need to align the images -- they may not automatically be centered correctly.

P.S. -- if you don't have an alpha channel -- it'll be too hard to bother trying to string 'em together... re-render (else After Effects will not know where the hell the bottom layer's supposed to show through... and all you'll see is whatever's on top... which will most likely be a lot of black.)

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