Best way to create vines over 2D image

[sean90291]

I'm pretty familiar with After Effects, but I'm betting there's a tried and true 3D route to getting realistic vines to cover a 2D shot of a building. It's probably elementary for you 3D wizards. I'm not sure where to begin. Would you use a texture map? Note that I'd only need vines to go over parts of the building. Not covering it completely. How would you approach it?

 

[Sad Max]

If you can paint them and comp them in, fine.

If you want to make them in 3d, the approach will vary depending upon the specific tool you want to use.

 

[sean90291]

Yeah, for this, 3D might be sort of unnecessary. So to paint them in using 2D, what would you use? Might be hard to draw them vine-by-vine using the "paint brush" in After Effects?

 

[Sad Max]

Photoshop.

Paint your image, and extract your matte from it. One-stop shopping.

 

[sean90291]

Yeah, I was starting to wonder if photoshop might be the way to go. Thanks mate.

 

[twocik23]

Well you can always take a picture of real vines, cut them out and lay them over. Or like everyone else has suggested, Photoshop.

 

[Derrick_SA]

If you have Particular there is a way to do 3d vines.

http://maltaannon.com/after-effects/growing-3d-vines/

- Derrick

 

[brinks]

And if you want to do in a 3D app
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html?id=101