OPACITY MAPS/MAPPING

'BYE AVATAR' - TROY BROWNE - JPG Opacity maps in 3DSMax allow users to map onto a surface/object so that whatever is black on the mapping texture becomes see-through, this also works with AVI maps.

For this video I layered 2 planes on top of each other and mapped one AVI on the foreground and another on the background plane I also applied an AVI onto the opacity map of the foreground plane, so that whatever is black on the AVI for the opacity map shows through to the background AVI.... it sounds kinda confusing, I tried to explain it in writing but theres a diagram to explain it a little better...
So what I did was add my 'AVATAR' movie on the background plane, then add my stop motion animation to the foreground plane and finally I added the other edit of the stop motion animation to the opacity map of the foreground plane, resulting in the imagery like at the top of this post.
I love the results. The outcome is very experimental, theres lots of detail (...so it'll probably look REALLY messy uploaded to Youtube, if so if you get in touch I can instruct you on how to get the full res version)


'BYE AVATAR' - AVI - TROY BROWNE
Music - 'Machine gun' - Portishead
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