Mettle, creators of FreeForm Pro, a plugin that gives you the ability to create and render 3D objects right within After Effects, posts a look at using FreeForm Pro to augment live action footage.
Effects artist Mike Sevigny shows us how to displace a plane in 3D space in Ae, making it look like a garage door is being deformed and dented. The process starts by using After Effects’ 3D camera tracker to track the live action shot. Mike then shows how you can use a projection to map the texture of the live action footage back onto a simple 2d plane which will represent the garage door.
It is the use of displacement maps along with FreeForm Pro that will make it easy to animate the dents in the garage door, giving a convincing look to the effect. Check out the post and tutorial for How to Dent a Garage Door VFX here.
