After Effects Room Test

Now that I'm confident I can create the rotoscope sections I thought I better do some experiments in After Effects to make sure I can create the 3D room.

To save time I created the surfaces in Illustrator, keeping everything flat for now just to keep things simple. I layed it out like a box net:

Firstly I tried importing the Illustrator layers directly into After Effects but for some reason the layers don't display in the renders. At first I thought it was an issue with the 3D rendering engine in AE but after some testing I noticed it was only affecting the Illustrator layers. 

I then tried exporting each layer separately as jpegs and tried making the room again, this time it rendered fine.

One noteable thing about this method is that high resolution (at least 4k) images are needed to avoid pixelation.

The following video is a spin showing the basic set up with two lights.

It works mostly as I imagined. Once I create the individual objects to go within the 'room' I think it will look much better. There will be more depth and the objects will also cast shadows making it all look much more convincing.

I then imported my rotoscope test into the composition and aligned it within the view of the camera, I'm pretty happy with the results of this:

When I create the final room with proper proportions, alignment, colour and possibly texture, the combination of these two techniques will look quite visually pleasing.