From the course: After Effects Breakdowns: N-Trig Commercial
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Adding depth of field using z-depth pass
From the course: After Effects Breakdowns: N-Trig Commercial
Adding depth of field using z-depth pass
- [Voiceover] To emphasize the depth that a real camera is generating between foreground and background elements, you usually need to create some sort of a depth of field effect. We've already seen this technique in the previous chapter, by using the wonderful Frischluft depth of field effect. And of course, you can use the built-in camera lens blur effect as well. But here, I want to show you another third-party tool that offers even more options. And this is the Defocus plugin from GenArts Sapphire collection. Remember that in order to use these compounds effect, you need to either prepare a blur map layer that consists of a grayscale ramp inside After Effects or to render what's known as a ZDepth pass from your 3D software. In this movie, I'll show you how the ZDepth map was modified for blurring only some of the light streaks lines. This is really helping to sell the illusion of depth as we are traveling from the physical paper into the digital innards of this pen. All right, so…
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