FXFX Academy – Motion Graphics Tips & Tricks Motion Graphics Tutorial Source

You are rendering your scene but you don't want to see background of it. You want to see only your object and its shadow so you need its matte/shadow pass. In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to render this matte/shadow pass in 3 most popular 3d software; 3d studio max, Maya and Cinema 4d.

Sometimes we need to render diffrent passes in one time and it can be really painful to work with multi-passes. Rpf format can be really life-saver at theese times. It can store Z-Depth, Uv Coordinates, Normal, Coverage, Object ID, Color, Transparency inside one file.

You can see exploded bombs, destroyed walls, destructed object etc. in all type of visual effects works...