Hello all, bear with me while a spill my thoughts.
I have some footage that I need to throw some 3D text on. Here is a screen shot, the camera tracks from left to right on a slider.
I would like the text to appear on the concrete of the parking lot in front of the yellow car. It would be awesome if the text cast shadows in front, as the sun is in the top right corner of the shot.
I motion tracked the footage, which I guess was stupid given there isn't enough depth in the tracking data because it's a tripod pan shot (the length of the shot is about 5 seconds).
This being said, do I just drop some 3D text in there and light it accordingly? I can't seem to get the look I want in AE, maybe it's inexperience. Is something like this supposed to be done in C4D?
A final note, I'd like the text to be "attached" to the concrete, so do I still need tracking points? Sorry for the long post, but I am sincerely stuck. Advice? Tutorials (I watched Kramer's 3D text tutorial, but there is no extrusion depth to his text as he's in Classic 3D and I can't reflect shadows on a solid in Ray Trace)?
Woo. That's a lot.