3D Compositing
Z Space
Building on many years of 3D compositing technology, RED 2.5 offers some of the most sophisticated rendering options available on the desktop. The first application to offer intersecting planes to desktop compositing when it was introduced, RED 2.5 also offers intersecting spheres, text, and more: indeed, any extruded objects may not only intersect but interact with other extruded objects in a scene, for effects both realistic and imagined with equal ease.
A powerful tool for creating and animating 3D scenes are RED 2.5's nested Container tracks, providing easily organized parent-child relationships between elements. Motion blur, filters and other effects may be applied once to all layers in a container, or individually to each. Each container contains its own light sources and camera for precise control. Containers also manage the position of elements in 3D space, and offer advanced rendering options. Containers may be composited over other layers in a composition with their own apply modes, which can themselves be animated.
Building on many years of 3D compositing technology, RED 2.5 offers some of the most sophisticated rendering options available on the desktop. The first application to offer intersecting planes to desktop compositing when it was introduced, RED 2.5 also offers intersecting spheres, text, and more: indeed, any extruded objects may not only intersect but interact with other extruded objects in a scene, for effects both realistic and imagined with equal ease.
A powerful tool for creating and animating 3D scenes are RED 2.5's nested Container tracks, providing easily organized parent-child relationships between elements. Motion blur, filters and other effects may be applied once to all layers in a container, or individually to each. Each container contains its own light sources and camera for precise control. Containers also manage the position of elements in 3D space, and offer advanced rendering options. Containers may be composited over other layers in a composition with their own apply modes, which can themselves be animated.
Click images above to open movies. Both approx. 1 MB
Extrusion
Once extruded objects have been created, they can easily be animated in ways not possible with other compositing solutions. 2D and 3D elements can intersect as they pass through each other's positions in Z space, and multiple cameras per layer provide a variety of ways to view the results.
Once extruded objects have been created, they can easily be animated in ways not possible with other compositing solutions. 2D and 3D elements can intersect as they pass through each other's positions in Z space, and multiple cameras per layer provide a variety of ways to view the results.
Click image above to open movie.
| One of the compositor's primary tasks is to manage the transparency of layers, and Boris RED 2.5 offers a number of unique ways to do this. Among these is the animation of compositing modes in a single layer through the "Apply Mix From" setting. This can be used to soften the effect of a composite mode, or animated to transition from one mode to another. Not only does this approach offer more options than traditional approaches, it offers reduced rendering times by not requiring copies of additional layers to provide the transition between composite modes. |
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No other compositing application offers anything resembling this variety of control over the actual process of compositing.
Below, top: unfiltered images. From Lower Left: Boost Eq +, Boost Eq -, and Boost Bias. Note consistent chroma values in each.
In addition to tools for creating extruded materials, RED 2.5 also includes procedural Natural Media, which can either be applied to the faces of 2D or 3D objects including text, or serve as backgrounds for RED compositions.
Because they are mathematically generated textures, they display smoothly at any scale. Each texture category includes a variety of animatable parameters, any of which may saved to the RED Style Palette. (The Style Palette also comes with dozens of preset, editable textures.)
Natural Media types include Wood, Wood Plank, Fractal Noise, Marble, Granite, Fabric, Reptilian and Random Color. Any of these can be applied as realistic surfaces, or animated as organic backgrounds.
Variations on a theme: marble mapped to a sphere, intersecting with a random color plane. Click images above to open movies. Both approx. 1 MB