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Hi all, thanks for the help with this. Should have popped in to say cheers a few days ago, but...
I ended up just using the dispalcement map technique; it was quick and easy and fast to render. The deadline was so short I did not have time to evaluate the Zax plugins beyond a cursory once over to see if I could immediately get what I wanted. Plus, despite the client wanting a fully articulated 3D flag that rolled over on itself to reveal a new flag on the back, that technique went totally in the face of the show which was all flat vector kinetic info-graphic style. The disp. map technique suited that better anyway I thought.
Still, given my druthers I'd get into FreeForm in a heartbeat, that will happen when I upgrade to CS6 in the next few weeks.
cheers again for all the great suggestions
Adam Mercado Influxx Media Production Fullerton, CA
Moving Images. For Business 714°928°9896
On Mar 29, 2012, at 9:56 AM, Peter McAuley wrote: Hi,
And if you want to make that flag move in 3D space, you might want to take a look at the BCC Layer Deformer plug-in, which uses AE comp cameras and lights and the filter's built-in auto-animating vertex shaders to generate 3D plane shapes that ripple and wave in 3D space (onto which you can map the static flag image or clip.)
You can download a free trial of the product here:
Cheers,
Peter.
On Mar 28, 2012, at 6:36 PM, Darby Edelen wrote: 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 Adam Mercado Influxx Media Production Fullerton, CA
Moving Images. For Business 714°928°9896
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