Sneak Peek: Mantra VR > Chrome Spheres Overview
Charles Yeager (yeagerfilm.com) helps us take our first dive into Mantra VR, showcasing each effect inside the software. For this overview, Charles is presenting the Chrome Spheres Effect.
Create Chrome-like spheres with your 360 footage, reflecting what is around them. The effect simulates one or more curved mirrors of arbitrary size and distribution. It has various distributions across the sphere, and can be applied directly to 360 footage. You can adjust positioning, size, reflection-level, distance and movement of your spheres. The effect can be linked to an audioreactive controller.
Reminder: Mettle Skybox Plug-ins have been acquired by Adobe and will be integrated inside After Effects and Premiere by the end of 2017. Those plugins are now available if you’re an Adobe Creative Cloud subscriber. Find out more here. Mantra VR extends and complements those tools.
Sneak Peek: Mantra VR > Chrome Spheres Overview
Mantra VR is a comprehensive set of 360/VR Stylization filters and FX for After Effects and Premiere Pro, that includes a Node Panel and a Globe Preview Panel.
All effects can be key-framed, with multiple feature controls, and can interpolate back to 360 footage, 0% effect applied. All Effects can be stacked and re-ordered, for a variation of the final look. Mantra VR is a Master Control which can apply all the stacked effects and interpolate from 0%-100%, keyframeable. Supports Mono and stereo footage Mac and WIN, and the effects have an audioreactive control set.
Mantra VR is a comprehensive set of 16 effects for After Effects and Premiere Pro.
Chrome Spheres – Simulates one or more curved mirrors of arbitrary size and distribution. Curvature is set to simulate hemisphere by default.
Charles Yeager is a Filmmaker & Motion Graphics Artist currently residing in Arkansas. His projects have been recognized by Canon, Video Copilot, Vimeo, Filmmaker IQ, No Film School, Film Convert, BOOM Library & Filminute. See his portfolio at yeagerfilms.com.
Charles is the author of numerous tutorials on 360/VR video production in After Effects and Premier Pro. You can find them in the tutorial section on the Mettle website.
