From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Your Photos to Life in Three Dimensions Using Photoshop and After Effects
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Setting the initial depth
From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Your Photos to Life in Three Dimensions Using Photoshop and After Effects
Setting the initial depth
- Once we have the 3D camera and the layers in 3D space, it's time to create the diorama. We need to spread these layers out along the Z axis, and adjust their scale to create a true environment. Let's start with the sailor shot here. Now do this, I'm going to switch to two views. The view on the left is the active camera view and the one on the right is called Custom View 1, which is about 45 degrees to the left and 45 degrees up. You can look at different views here and change your angle to really sort of see what's happening. But actually I like Custom View 1, it works pretty well. Let's leave the original layer off here. And I'll select these three layers, with a shift click and press P for position, and then hold down the shift key and press S for scale. Now I see the two properties. What I want to do is spread things out a bit, so if I grab the position of this field layer I could push it further away so it's in the…
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