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Re: 3D Animation Q/A

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Originally Posted by animator1
ok, i was wondering if i can put an animated character into a real life scene for our animation? is that possible? or does it have to be just animation and no rea life video?
Are you allowed to? Certainly!
Is it possible? Of course!

A simple method is to go to the Rendering menu and choose "Environment".

Set the environment map to open either a video file (AVI or MPeg) or a sequence of numbered images like JPGs or TGAs.

Now when you render the scene, the objects in the scene will appear in the foreground and the video you imported will be behind the objects.

If you need to do more complex things than that, then I would suggest using a program like Adobe Premiere or Adobe After Effects to combine your animated output from 3ds max and your video files.