{"id":330,"date":"2012-08-10T11:20:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T11:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/?p=330"},"modified":"2012-08-10T11:24:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T11:24:03","slug":"cutting-foreground-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"Cutting Foreground Objects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s topic I am going to discuss the matter of placing an animation behind some foreground objects. Let\u2019s imagine we have a picture like this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/haunted-house-night-image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-335\" title=\"haunted-house-night-image\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/haunted-house-night-image-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/haunted-house-night-image-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/haunted-house-night-image.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is a good background for storm scene, but if we simply add lighting into the scene, the result will be mediocre:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/mediocre.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-338\" title=\"mediocre\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/mediocre-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/mediocre-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/mediocre.jpg 844w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To make it better, we have to place animation behind the house. This is a situation where the \u201cbackground copy\u201d tool helps.<\/p>\n<p>First step: Add a \u201cbackground copy\u201d layer into the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Second step: Paint over the house on the picture with this tool. (You may need to turn on the \u201chighlight effect area\u201d option to see the result clearly.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/mask.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-341\" title=\"mask\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/mask-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/mask-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/mask.jpg 746w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now your scene should look like this.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><object width=\"400\" height=\"300\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"border\" value=\"1\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IDVdBoOY-V4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"400\" height=\"300\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IDVdBoOY-V4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" border=\"1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s topic I am going to discuss the matter of placing an animation behind some foreground objects. Let\u2019s imagine we have a picture like this. It is a good background for storm scene, but if we simply add lighting into the scene, the result will be mediocre: To make it better, we have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desktoppaints.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}