Mograph Techniques: Creating a Product Endpage

Create a product endpage for a commercial that combines live-action footage and 3D animation in After Effects and CINEMA 4D, in our latest motion graphics course.

In this installment of Mograph Techniques, Ian Robinson shows how to mix live-action footage with 3D elements to create a product endpage for a commercial. First, Ian shows how to use After Effect's Camera Tracker to re-create the camera move on the backplate with a 3D camera. Then he jumps to CINEMA 4D to model, texture, and light the product. Ian demonstrates a multipass workflow in C4D that allows for more flexibility once the renders are brought back into AE. Finally, back in AE, you'll learn to composite the footage and add editable type and effects to the scene.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files
• Using challenges

1. Solving the 3D Camera

• Stabilizing with Warp Stabilizer VFX
• Accelerated workflow with Import & Replace Usage
• Tracking the camera
• Sending the tracked camera to CINEMA 4D

2. Creating the Bottle

• Modeling the plastic bottle
• Modeling the cap
• Creating the bottle material
• Creating detail with materials
• Applying the label
• Adding dimension with materials
• Lighting the bottle
• Challenge: Creating a different bottle type
• Solution: Creating a different bottle type

3. Building the Composite

• Determining the render passes
• Understanding linear workflow
• Creating the final composite
• Matching editable 2D type into the scene
• Retiming and stylizing to match the edit

Conclusion

• Next steps