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I do have Stroke and Particular. Would take a bit of work to further learn to use them in this way. At this point, just knowing how things came together is the goal. Once a project gets put in motion, I can usually slug through it and figure out how to set up the effect. Probably takes me 3 times longer than you pros. J Since you mention the ‘write on’ effect, if a person wanted to create the effect of writing handwritten chalk text on a chalkboard, would you create the entire drawing using some sort of chalk-like brush style in photoshop, then bring that layer into Ae and animate mask points to reveal the chalk layer? Or is there an actual chalk-like brush available within the write-on effect itself? John From: After Effects Mail List [mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv] On Behalf Of Byron Nash Yes, you are correct on the 3D stroke taper. Although, 3D Stroke needs masks to work and sometimes that can be trick getting it to line up with the arrow. I normally use the Write on effect since I can link it to a null. Also, for a thin tapering line, you could use a dense stream of particles from Particular. On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 3:16 PM, John Morgan <John.Morgan@slcc.edu> wrote: Wouldn’t Trapcode 3D stroke allow a taper on the back end? Thanks for the tip. John From: After Effects Mail List [mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv] On Behalf Of Byron Nash
You may need more than this, but here is a quick tip. For arrows you can usually combine an arrowhead attached to a null with a stroke of some kind hooked to the same null. This only works with uniform width shapes that you can separate the tip into a different layer. When combined they appear as one element. On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 2:07 PM, John Morgan <John.Morgan@slcc.edu> wrote: Teddy that response was priceless! Fwded to boss...who is somewhat savy but sorta thinks that stuff looks easy. J Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID
Definitely a good piece, but obviously not easy to emulate. It's like learning how to cook by eating an 11 course meal. Difficult, unless you have the recipes. I have a hard time believing it was "only" $10k and two weeks for that piece.They must have paid their team of animators and editors next to nothing. And I say team because there's no way one or two people pulled that off in two weeks. I've seen 30 second pieces with less involved graphics and no video footage for double that budget produced in twice the time. On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:15 PM, John Morgan <John.Morgan@slcc.edu> wrote: Brian, Scott and Jim, Thank You. I’m in an in-house college marketing shop, wearing many hats as videographer and all things related including motion graphics. Am not an Ae power user….yet. Still, I have 9 years of Ae use under my belt. A short stint with Combustion before that. And a brief amount of Softimage 3D before that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqoJEtM4jX0 My boss had seen the above clip from Simon Faser University and had read a report about it in some college-related national magazine. She wants me to push my envelope and incorporate more motion graphics such as those used in the clip. The story in the magazine was a write-up about how SFU had “pulled off this incredible thing in just two weeks.” Ha! I thought. She handed me the article and I read between the lines and interpreted the language of the article. A marketing director and the college pres had written the script, but “a Toronto-based graphics facilitator” had helped. Likely a boutique post house, unnamed in the article. Cost $10,000.00. Right. I informed my boss that the project hadn’t been done in house at all!....other than script. $10k for 4-mins of finished video is obviously heavy with AE and 3D animator time, not to mention the creative concepting and story boarding time. Possible ad agency involvement, but not mentioned in the article. Motion graphics interspersed throughout the project. That very first scene where the SFU logo follows a spline is what I was trying to achieve in Ae. Much of the other red-white animation looked like it could be done inside Ae, except for some of the objects that are 3D (maybe models imported to Ae.) Towards the end, there’s a train that’s obviously not 2D. I pulled the video off youtube and have been going through the animations a frame at a time to see their progression…..as learning experience. The text animations seem like they came from somewhere else, or 3rd party plugin. Or, they’re complex multi-comp projects with stroke animated. Not sure how the cross-hatching was applied. Complex. Not that I’m trying to duplicate, but I’d like to learn some of the steps so as to have the ability. Any thoughts about how some of these motion effects were created, or whether within Ae or plugin would be appreciated. John From: After Effects Mail List [mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv] On Behalf Of Brian Maffitt If you use Freeform Pro applied to a large precomp, you should be able to Distort the layer/comp in any way you like, for example, following an s-shaped path. Then if you animate your layer inside the precomp, it will follow the distortions contained in the parent comp. Does this make sense? Brian
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