Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #42749
From: Darby Edelen <dedelen@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [AE] Flag options in AE CS3
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:36:16 -0700
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Animated fractal noise to drive a displacement map gives a pretty convincing flag distortion.

For the fractal noise I recommend trying the Strings form and increasing vertical scale quite a bit. Then you can animate evolution, enable perspective offset and animate the transform property of the noise in the direction you want your wind flowing. That all goes into a precomp.

Then in your main comp use the noise to drive the displacement map on your flag graphic. Bonus points if you put the noise comp over the flag graphic and use a blend mode like soft light to give it some lighting.

On Mar 28, 2012 2:31 PM, "adam mercado" <adam@influxx.com> wrote:
Sure this has been covered a gazzilion times so I apologise if it is trite. I've been searching the web for options for creating a very stylized flag graphic in AE CS3 on a Mac. I do not need realism, just a very ilustritive approximation of a flag motion on a pre-comp.

It seems my options are thus:
upgrade to AE5.5 for $949 to get FreeForm
get Zaxwerks 3DFlag for $199

FreeForm Pro is not available for Mac it seems which is too bad as the mettle products look super cool. FreeFormAE is no longer available from DigiEffects now it is bundled with AE CS5

Are there nay other options available to me that I missed? Is FreeForm worth the extra outlay (aside from the other obvious benefits to CS5.5). There is not a huge budget to this project and the flag element is one of hundreds. Trying to be economical and judicious.

cheers
 
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