Remember that facial rigging and lip sync tutorial series from David Legion? Well, David continues his look at the workflow and tools necessary for rigging a character’s head in After Effects. This time he takes another look at creating displacement maps that you can use with Mettle’s FreeForm Pro plugin for After Effects.
As a follow up to a technique shown in Part 1 of this series, we will learn how to use Cinema 4D Lite that is bundled with After Effects CC to create the basis for a displacement mapDave Legion
David shows how you can create displacements using the bundled Cinema 4D Lite that comes with the more recent versions of Ae. Also coving a technique for using Photoshop in conjunction with After Effects and the FreeForm Plugin which will allow you to paint a texture map for the characters head interactively, so its easy to see what needs to go where. Check out the tutorial for Create A Displacement Map With Cinema 4D Lite here.
