Return-Path: Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.8] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 5314512 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Wed, 11 Dec 2013 16:33:27 +0100 Received: from oxbsltgw56.schlund.de (oxbsltgw56.schlund.de [172.19.249.203]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrbap4) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MNLsv-1VtGwC324n-007W2T; Wed, 11 Dec 2013 16:36:09 +0100 Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 16:36:09 +0100 (CET) From: "mylenium@mylenium.de" Reply-To: "mylenium@mylenium.de" To: After Effects Mail List Message-ID: <1423186981.46943.1386776169567.open-xchange@email.1und1.de> In-Reply-To: References: Subject: Re: [AE] Gradient to transparent for a fake shadow + rotation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_46942_982541576.1386776169423" X-Priority: 3 Importance: Medium X-Mailer: Open-Xchange Mailer v7.4.0-Rev20 X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:auK47LkAR6o/PVLmOPTxYm5P2Z/PY4oB9N64TEy7ecB bOj9kUuMozKPhhNyJwr9jc0QQYJMC0+anHgOiRiXZQf6SXGk97 h8xKqeA30ZLmvfNmvjrEIjI+45nX0X0O7ZND6Wkj3chMN9bJKl q7OUUE7jfmzQrLWo2sk4TRA8vN1Xal7d0iyngtCtih+iCJ1BNZ ZjtuwoKVO9iR+TiUs8cXocQXhoDpqIF1cII20mllXcjuNzGSUf 1udWaByFJuP9vhOAwk/yG59J5Pse2sBoUdjSQCLjPaqjO3iSxY V0i2/51K2rfwoxicWmr2M81wHVX/eZk9JEZZsDwedoG9LEYpYi oRkbmwMkDnOXX1AkRi3ilX7AMNCV5+Fxl8zrq5eNSdQGkIhJVD F0NcJfEUTHy0pMdRRSGh/ZOfsJSi+5qm98= ------=_Part_46942_982541576.1386776169423 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Effects --> Distort --> Transform. Yes, the oft forgotten ugly child. Likew= ise, you can always use a Corner Pin for perspective skewing if 3D is to cumbersome... And fading anything can be easily done with a Linear Wipe. Ol= dest trick in town. None of what you want to do is any problem once you add all = this into the equation. Only the order of effects matters then. Mylenium [Pour Myl=C3=A8ne, ange sur terre] ----------------------------------------- www.mylenium.de > Anders Sundstedt hat am 11. Dezember 2013 um 15:4= 2 > geschrieben: >=20 > Hi, >=20 > I have been making some fake shadows by simply duplicating a layer, squa= shing > it, stretching and changing levels and adding some blur effects. >=20 > I would like to now fade it from dark to transparent, linear, so that it > softens out the further away from the origin of the shadow. In my example= the > wheel of a cartoon fire truck. >=20 > I tried this 4 point gradient but it doesn=E2=80=99t work as it=E2=80=99= s not doing a linear > gradient, also this effect doesn=E2=80=99t fade to transparent, only to c= olor. >=20 > Another thing I would also like to know, the wheel is rotating as the tr= uck > is moving forward, how can I make the dublicate copy (Ctrl+D) shadow also > rotate accordingly? Rotating it normally will not work because the squash= ed > wheel shadow will rotate in 2D rather than in the fake 3D shadow plane. I= s it > possible to have it rotate correctly without using 3D layers? (the point = of > using fake shadows rather than actual 3D was to quickly get shadows witho= ut > setting up as 3D layers with lights etc. and render speed.) I usually do > actual 3D but for this video it will be easier with faked shadows. >=20 > Thanks > Anders >=20 ------=_Part_46942_982541576.1386776169423 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =20 =20 =20
Effects --> Distort --> Transform. Yes, the oft forgotten ugly c= hild. Likewise, you can always use a Corner Pin for perspective skewing if = 3D is to cumbersome... And fading anything can be easily done with a Linear= Wipe. Oldest trick in town. None of what you want to do is any proble= m once you add all this into the equation. Only the order of effects matter= s then.
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I have been making some fake shadows by simply duplicating a layer, = squashing it, stretching and changing levels and adding some blur effects.
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I would like to now fade it from dark to transparent, linear, so tha= t it softens out the further away from the origin of the shadow. In my exam= ple the wheel of a cartoon fire truck.
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I tried this 4 point gradient but it doesn=E2=80=99t work as it=E2= =80=99s not doing a linear gradient, also this effect doesn=E2=80=99t fade = to transparent, only to color.
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Another thing I would also like to know, the wheel is rotating as th= e truck is moving forward, how can I make the dublicate copy (Ctrl+D) shado= w also rotate accordingly? Rotating it normally will not work because the s= quashed wheel shadow will rotate in 2D rather than in the fake 3D shadow pl= ane. Is it possible to have it rotate correctly without using 3D layers? (t= he point of using fake shadows rather than actual 3D was to quickly get sha= dows without setting up as 3D layers with lights etc. and render speed.) I = usually do actual 3D but for this video it will be easier with faked shadow= s.
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