How do I animate gold overlay

[Buggsy]

Hi All,

 

I am doing a study and animation of the Tabernacle in the wilderness, as seen in the biblical book of Exodus.

 

I am wanting to animate gold being overlaid the acacia wood for a number of the vessels in the tabernacle and I'm not sure what the best way to do this is?

 

Can I just animate the texture channel, perhaps using a 3D object mask, kind of like allowing the texture to be revealed as I remove the transparent 3D object mask?

 

I don't need to animate polygons, just the texture will do, as the gold overlay would perhaps be thin enough for it not to be appreciated if modelled in 3D.

 

I was hoping that instead of spending time trying to find a good, quick and efficient way of doing this, I'd ask everyone here.

 

Many Thanks

Michael

[Tomas Egger]

Ola Michael!

 

Could you show us a reference?

 

Thanks

 

Tom

[Buggsy]

The following is an example of one of the items I need to animate gold being overlaid.

 

http://www.bjnewlife.org/english/bstudy/sermons_61.php

 

This Altar is first made of wood and then has a thin gold overlay put on it. The wood forms the structure and the gold serves to decorate it.

 

I want to animate the gold being overlaid onto of the wood. This doesn't have to be complicated, it just needs to change from wood texture to gold to give the idea that there is wood beneath the gold.

 

Do I need a plug-in like AG Wipe Set from Northern Lights to do this or can I animate a texture to do this?

 

Michael

[Tomas Egger]

Ola Michael!

 

I would render both, Wood and Gold versions and then animate a version which is only a “Black & White” animated Mask to compose in After Effects, the mask can be done in After Effects too and applied in the groups as textures, Do you understand?

 

Thanks

 

Tom

[Buggsy]

So I'm effectively doing a post production transition using the Black & White mask?

 

What would the blend mode be to do this? I will be using Final Cut Express HD to compile the animation.

 

Michael

[Tomas Egger]

Ola Michael,

I'm suggesting this approach since you can edit easily the mask if you don't like it and you can render a mask a lot faster than have everything in one pass inside EIAS, this is a compositing trick from film productions.

You will use a "traveling matte", I never used Final cut express, but, should be easy to do.

Thanks

Tom