After Effects Tutorial - Red Giant Psunami - Part 3: Sky Replacement
Create a cinematic ocean scene using Psunami for After Effects.
Part 3 looks at replacing the default Psunami sky with a picture of your choice.
Plugins used: Red Giant Psunami
*Important: I did get confused with the camera rotation. Here's the explaination:
Tracking with after effects can get tedious and it sometimes is inaccurate. This method is much more effective and quick, and also completely accurate.
The basic idea is to create a 3d camera in after effects and manually sync its movement with the psunami camera.
So the "elevation" in psunami will be the y position of the camera.
Example: Elevation: 2 --- Y position of the camera: original + 2
The tilt in psunami = x rotation of the camera. 90 degrees tilt = 0 degrees x rotation
**However, 100 degrees tilt = -10 degrees x rotation. So as one decreases the other increases.
The pan in psunami = y rotation of the camera. 90 degrees pan = 0 degrees y rotation
Example: 92 degrees pan = 2 degrees y rotation. So as one increases so does the other
The roll in psunami = z rotation of the camera.
Example: 10 degrees roll = 10 degrees z rotation
So you keyframe the position, x rotation, y rotation, and z rotation according to your psunami camera's movement. Make sure the sky image is a 3d object for it to be affected by the camera. Also, move it way back in the z axis.
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Final Product: • After Effects Test - Psunami
Part 1 - Ocean: • After Effects Tutorial - Red Giant Psunami...
Part 2 - Depth of field: • After Effects Tutorial - Red Giant Psunami...
Part 3 - Sky Replacement: • After Effects Tutorial - Red Giant Psunami...
Part 4 - Sun and Colour Corrections: • After Effects Tutorial - Red Giant Psunami...