• Adobe After Effects

  Spiraling musical notes

  Posted by David Pearce on August 11, 2010 at 8:12 pm

  I want to have musical notes spiral out of a harmonica and fade away as it is being played. I’ve gotten the notes to shoot out with Radio Wave, but I don’t know how to get them to spiral.

  Thanks,
  Dave

  Brian Charles replied 16 years ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Tudor “ted” jelescu

  August 11, 2010 at 10:39 pm

  Use Particular, have a light as emitter animate on a spiral path.
  These links may be useful
  https://cache.redgiantsoftware.com/_assets/uploads/file/community-tutorial/particular_custom.html
  https://www.redgiantsoftware.com/videos/tutorials/#trapcode-particular

  Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
  Senior Compositor/VFX Artist
  Bucharest, Romania
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  Brian Charles

  August 11, 2010 at 10:47 pm

  This may help. 2 part tutorial on how to animate text on a spiral path.

  https://library.creativecow.net/articles/stern_eran/Tornado_Text1.php

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