Return-Path: Received: from douglas.footholds.net ([188.65.117.69] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP id 5458597 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Tue, 29 Apr 2014 18:18:47 +0200 Received: from [90.204.48.184] (port=61820 helo=[192.168.0.8]) by douglas.footholds.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1WfAk1-0002EU-89; Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:18:45 +0100 From: "angie@angietaylor.co.uk" Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_17C2E682-6C4F-4CF7-98EA-68CAC5920C78" Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.2 \(1874\)) Subject: Re: [AE] cartoon smoke puff effect Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:18:45 +0100 References: To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?After=A0Effects=A0Mail=A0List_Mail_List?= , Brian Maffitt In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1874) X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.8 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - douglas.footholds.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - media-motion.tv X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - angietaylor.co.uk X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: douglas.footholds.net: authenticated_id: angie@angietaylor.co.uk X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: --Apple-Mail=_17C2E682-6C4F-4CF7-98EA-68CAC5920C78 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Great idea Brian! :-) > It honestly doesn't take long to draw three or fours cartoon puffs on = Photoshop layers and sequence them in AE, but if you want to automate = it, use an AE mask shaped like a puff, as a source shape for Radio = Waves. --Apple-Mail=_17C2E682-6C4F-4CF7-98EA-68CAC5920C78 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Great idea Brian! :-)

It honestly doesn't take long to draw three or fours cartoon puffs on Photoshop layers and sequence them in AE, but if you want to automate it, use an AE mask shaped like a puff, as a source shape for Radio Waves.

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