{"id":693,"date":"2012-04-12T04:12:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T04:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/?p=693"},"modified":"2012-04-12T04:13:54","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T04:13:54","slug":"demo-alpha-lights-in-pixel-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/?p=693","title":{"rendered":"Demo: Alpha Lights in Pixel Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N7MU9ALSrwc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of the nifty features in the upcoming Pixel Cloud plugin for After Effects is the ability to use After Effects own 3D lights to &#8220;relight&#8221; the alpha of an image according to its depth\/position information. This can be done using an additional position pass or height map pass. Here is a quick little demo of how this can be achieved!<\/p>\n<div><div style=\"padding-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;font-weight:bold;\">Share this post!<\/div><div class=simplesocial><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/?p=693\" data-text=\"Demo%3A+Alpha+Lights+in+Pixel+Cloud\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/div><div class=simplesocial><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fblurrypixel.com%2F%3Fp%3D693&layout=standard&show_faces=false&width=450&action=like&colorscheme=light&height=35\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:25px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/div><div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><a class=simplesocial onclick=\"return simplesocial(this,500,400)\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" style=\"background:url(http:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-social-sharing-widgets-icons\/icons_32\/facebook.png)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fblurrypixel.com%2F%3Fp%3D693&t=Demo%3A+Alpha+Lights+in+Pixel+Cloud\"><\/a><a class=simplesocial onclick=\"return simplesocial(this,435,500)\" title=\"Email a Friend\" style=\"background:url(http:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-social-sharing-widgets-icons\/icons_32\/email.png)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freetellafriend.com\/tell\/?heading=Share+This+Article&bg=1&option=email&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblurrypixel.com%2F%3Fp%3D693\"><\/a><a class=simplesocial onclick=\"return simplesocial(this,700,500)\" title=\"Share on Reddit\" style=\"background:url(http:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-social-sharing-widgets-icons\/icons_32\/reddit.png)\" href=\"http:\/\/reddit.com\/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblurrypixel.com%2F%3Fp%3D693&title=Demo%3A+Alpha+Lights+in+Pixel+Cloud\"><\/a><a class=simplesocial title=\"RSS Feed\" style=\"background:url(http:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-social-sharing-widgets-icons\/icons_32\/rss.png)\" href=\"http:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/?feed=rss2\"><\/a><\/div><div style=\"clear:both;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the nifty features in the upcoming Pixel Cloud plugin for After Effects is the ability to use After Effects own 3D lights to &#8220;relight&#8221; the alpha of an image according to its depth\/position information. This can be done using an additional position pass or height map pass. Here is a quick little demo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,38,10,37],"tags":[29,58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696,"href":"http:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}