Forum: Animation


Subject: Animation with Transparency?

FranOnTheEdge opened this issue on Sep 29, 2014 · 6 posts


FranOnTheEdge posted Tue, 30 September 2014 at 3:56 AM

Quote - Did you tell it to render as 32-bit deep, so it can have 8 bits alpha to old the transparency, and did you tell it to use theobject mask (or whatever they call it) to set things apart from the background?

Quicktime needs TrueColor+, not just TrueColor. If you keep it as TrueColor it'll be 24-bit and ignores alpha.

Something like that. I don't know the details for C4d but it's probably similar to rendering from others like Carrara when it comes to the image format and depth.

 

I tried 32bit, didn't seem to make any difference.

C4D doesn't seem to have 'object mask' unlike Bryce, nor could I find anything like it. It also has no .png option other than the quicktime.png, no idea about TrueColor - plus minus or anything else, couldn't find anything like that.

 

In the end all I could do was render a single image as .psd, and then get that into PhotoShop and mask off the black invert that - paste and copy the character into a new layer, hide the original layer and then (finally!) save as .png

But that's gonna be hell to do for the whole preceding animation!

There MUST be an easier way?

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