{"id":34,"date":"2009-01-15T12:44:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T16:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miradamedia.com\/blog\/en\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2009-01-15T12:46:57","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T16:46:57","slug":"faux-reflections","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.miradamedia.com\/blog\/en\/digital-signage-design-tutorials\/adobe-after-effects\/faux-reflections","title":{"rendered":"Faux Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reflections onto &#8220;wet floors&#8221; is all the rage these days in design (e.g. see Apple). True reflections are rendered in 3D software like <a title=\"Mxon 4D\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maxon.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maxon&#8217;s 4D<\/a> or the open-source <a title=\"Blender 3D\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blender.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blender<\/a>&#8211;After Effects isn&#8217;t a 3D program (although using the CS4 suite is changing that slightly) so you can&#8217;t get the same results in the compositing program. That said, there are a lot of work arounds that copy, flip and blur footage elements to get faux reflections. <a title=\"Art Beats Stock Footage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.artbeats.com\/written_tutorials\" target=\"_blank\">Art Beats<\/a> has a great <a title=\"Faux reflection tutorial\" href=\"http:\/\/www.artbeats.com\/s3\/assets\/written_tutorials\/pdfs\/faux_reflections.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">tutorial<\/a> written by Chris &amp; Trish Meyer of Crish Design (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cybmotion.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.cybmotion.com<\/a>) to add the faux reflection effect to your digital signage videos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflections onto &#8220;wet floors&#8221; is all the rage these days in design (e.g. see Apple). True reflections are rendered in 3D software like Maxon&#8217;s 4D or the open-source Blender&#8211;After Effects isn&#8217;t a 3D program (although using the CS4 suite is changing that slightly) so you can&#8217;t get the same results in the compositing program. That &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miradamedia.com\/blog\/en\/digital-signage-design-tutorials\/adobe-after-effects\/faux-reflections\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Faux Reflections&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":33,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miradamedia.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miradamedia.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miradamedia.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miradamedia.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miradamedia.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.miradamedia.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miradamedia.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miradamedia.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}