After Effects Projection Mapping Beginner's Tutorial

Did you know you can do 3d video projection mapping with Adobe After Effects? I will cover how to connect your projector as an output display and how to corner pin your video content to a physical surface. I will also create some quick example animations and some basic masking.

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Set-Up 00:26
Projector Output Display 01:51
Basic Animations 03:00
Masking 05:53

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[LumaBox]

Did you know you could do video mapping with After Effects?

Set-Up 00:26
Projector Display 01:51
Basic Animations 03:00
Masking 05:53

[RocketChild]

Wow! I vaguely learnt about projection mapping years ago, but didn't really understand it at the time. These days I use After Effects all the time for animation and video work, so its fantastic to see that its so easy to use AF for projection mapping

[babayodamisa]

Thanks a million for the tutorials. Your tutorials are always on point. The effects are quite fascinating. Looking forward to a complete project in after effects. Thanks

[styleat]

i just started watching your videos. im amazed by the depth and precision of you videos. you really explain everything from top to bottom. very helpful. thank you

[EdaliaDayCreative]

amazing! i'd thought of mapping from ae to test things out but never realised it could be so simple

[TheTonyHernandez]

Nice I din't know that either thanks for the info

[juliasaffron]

good stuff. I can't wait to figure this out for lightform

[jakethompsonhair]

These are great techniques, thanks for sharing as I want to start using After Effects more.

[WBanduMedia]

Nice. Learn something clearly from you

[ChristmasOnCrestline]

Thanks for this video. I'm Adobe After Effects ignorant so this helped me see if the program was worthwhile to invest in to learn Projection Mapping. It was appreciated.

[sonicuchia]

Thank you for being better and more consistent than MadMapper at putting out content and Tutorials.

[BrunaClaas]

Very interesting video, thank you for sharing! I really enjoyed the effects you did with the solids. So simple, yet so cool!

[morvaridghasemi]

I thought make video mapping is so hard, but you make it easy for me. thank you so much. I am so keen to use your tuterial so much

[ebipbop]

Really loved this video thank you just a wonderful tutorial and teacher! :) I would like to see how far can you push after-effects into video mapping or know if there is any plug-in available!
Also, it is awesome what you just showed us! For real it is super fun and I just imagine all the possibilities I can make with this knowledge!
I would especially love to know how to sync this with animation or music! Thank you! x infinite you just introduced me into a new world!

[phma]

Fantastic tutorial, literally opening new dimensions to me, and I hope a good grade :) Do you know a way to "copy in place" the mask from the pre-composition to its child, the Surface one?

[rehanshaikh]

Love you ..great and easily explanation ..
Can you give after effect software full tutorial

[creteen]

Hi I just got into projection mapping and I find it fascinating, I've seen some of your tutorials which are very straight forward and easy to understand.
I started with mapmap for pc and it was buggy and a pain to use.
Madmapper's demo was fun and I've lerned some stuff, but in order to make custom animations you have to import from other softwares?
After Effects sounds like a winner to me if you can do the mapping plus animation as well. At first sight seems a bit complicated though.
Are there other softwares which do both mapping and animations which might be better than After Effects?
Thank you for your tutorials and keep up the good work.

[christopherkerhin]

Thank you, just completed this step-by-step. Very helpful! If I wanted to add content to a mask would i need to make a new composition? Is there a next tutorial on mapping with AE?

[Grandkidsmovies]

You are really great teacher. Kindly let me guide how to use image/picture in After Effect for video projection mapping please.

[gavinborthwick]

Excellent work as always, something I didn't know and will be super helpful for projects. Love to learn how to get a 3d ball rolling across a building surface, such a neat trick, I'd like to get 3d snowballs rolling down instead for a Christmas show I'm producing. Jesse James has done this, just wondered if you can do it in Adobe?