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suction or vacuum effect in ae
Hi! I’ve been wondering if someone could help me with my dilemma. I’m working on a spot for a facial cleanser. In it the star of the spot would wipe her face with a cotton and all the dirt in her face should be sucked by the cotton dab with the cleanser. Does anybody know to create this effect.I use the shatter effect and Luma mattes but I didn’t like the look. What I want is to be able to control the look and position of the dirts because I would create it in photoshop so that revisions would be easier. Any kind of help will be greatly appreciated.
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maybe a particle system like Particular could help. You could make it run in reverse for the ‘vacuum’ effect. You can define the emitter shape to match it to the cotton, and you can define custom particles. You can also make, say 5 different particles and make particular randomly choose from them to get some variation.
There are other particle systems including the ones that ship with AE – but I haven’t used them much so can’t really recommend.
This is just my first thought from what you described.. might not be the way to go it’s just a suggestion.
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Hi John thanks for the post but I was hoping to use only the built-in effects of ae, the effect that I’m describing is almost like the dickinson’s commercial, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbdmfFFX3fc, the only difference is that instead of words it’s dirt that is being sucked and the cotton goes from left to right.
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(I prefer Thayer’s Rose Witch Hazel.)
Foam can be used to create a similar effect that can be time reversed if you set up a freeze frame at the end.
There is also CC Flo Motion that creates startling smooth down-the-drain style animation but it takes lots of fiddling.
bogiesan
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I learned a few good tips from these replies that will speed up my work.
Recently on a project I went to the length of making text layers in the top corner which switched on and off in sync with a soundtrack. I used phrases like ‘drums kick in’ and ‘mood change’ and animated thier scale to symbolise volume fall off and things. Probs took me 10 mins on a 30 second audio track but you really get familiar with it afterwards and are left with a kind of structure to animate to.
But with these workflow tips maybe I won’t have to go that far next time!
ThanksJohn
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Ops! I posted that last comment in the wrong thread – too many firefox tabs!
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Hi david how do you customize the particles in foam?
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oops found out how to customize it already, thanks for all the reply foam and cc flo motion looks promising thanks again! 🙂
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Jobert,
Good luck with your project.
We’re glad to offer assistance but we’d also like to see what you end up with or maybe you could tell us how you finally achieved your goal. Threads in the cow often lead posters to unexpected solutions.bogiesan
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