Introduction to VFX in Maya and After Effects

Importing the CG Renders

A course by John Bashyam , Digital Artist and Director

98% positive reviews (40)

2,479 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Importing the CG Renders

Overview

“In this lesson, I will show you how to import the CG renders into After Effects, check color settings, then combine the various AOVs together and lay them on top of the footage.”

In this video lesson John Bashyam addresses the topic: Importing the CG Renders, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to VFX in Maya and After Effects. Learn the VFX pipeline from start to finish, and create a realistic video with surreal elements by rendering and compositing objects into live action footage.

Partial transcription of the video

“ Importing the CG Renders Now that we've rendered our scene, in this lesson, we'll bring that into After Effects and begin the compositing process. Let's get going. Open the comp we already started in the earlier lessons. We have this plate comp set up here, where we have our footage. We have our footage imported, and that's about all we did to begin with. You should have this ready to go. I talked about making some folders for organization here. You can do it at your preference but this is what I like to do. The first step, now that we've got our comp here, is to double-click in here, or ...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to VFX in Maya and After Effects

Level: Beginner
98% positive reviews (40)
2479 students
5 units
30 lessons (7h 5m)
7 downloads

Category
3D & Animation
Software
Adobe After Effects, Maya
Areas
3D, 3D Animation, 3D Modeling, Animation, Audiovisual Post-production, Character Animation, Film, Film, Video & TV, Photography Post-production, VFX, Video Editing

John Bashyam

A course by John Bashyam

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Digital Artist and Director

John Bashyam is a digital artist, director, and entrepreneur based in Los Angeles, California. After graduating from Loyola Marymount University with a degree in film and animation, he went on to co-found Warm & Fuzzy, an animation, visual effects, and design studio with offices in LA and Colorado.

His studio is on the cutting edge of digital technology, servicing some of the top brands in the world, including Nike, adidas, New Balance, Honda, Budweiser, Reddit, Facebook, NBC, Apple, Disney, and Lululemon, among others. He’s also worked on films like Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant Man, Ghostbusters, The Finest Hours, The Shallows, The Walk, and Unbroken, and as a visual effects artist at Coachella for artists like The Weeknd, Muse, ACDC, Guns N’ Roses, Skrillex, Kaskade, Zedd, Kid Cudi, and many more.