Creative Communities of the World Forums

The peer to peer support community for media production professionals.

Activity Forums Adobe After Effects shrinking fabric fibers animation

  • shrinking fabric fibers animation

    Posted by Stuart Brontman on August 31, 2010 at 10:47 pm

    I’m trying to create an animation showing fabric fibers shrinking. It would basically be perpendicular fibers interwoven at a preset distance apart and then have them “shrink” as if they were subject to being washed in hot water or something like that. If this could be done in quasi-3D that would be even better.

    Thanks for any suggestions on this.

    Stuart Brontman replied 15 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
  • 4 Replies
  • Tudor “ted” jelescu

    September 1, 2010 at 10:46 am

    3dStroke could be an option
    Or Trapcode Particular, using animated paths.
    Here’s a tutorial that may help;
    https://library.creativecow.net/park_michael/red-giant-stitch-effect/1

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

  • Tudor “ted” jelescu

    September 1, 2010 at 10:50 am

    I just thought of another way- if you have a nice looking image of fibers, you can apply Mesh Warp to simulate the fibers coming closer.
    One more option- use Zaxwerks Invigorator: create fiber shapes in Illustrator, import as separate objects, position in Zaxwerks 3d space and animate them getting closer.

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

  • Chris Wright

    September 1, 2010 at 6:20 pm

    actually Zaxwerks serpentine would be perfect for this. It support 3-D fibers to shrink, move, etc, even custom caps on the ends. then you can add custom random expressions to the inertia of the fibers.

    https://technicolorsoftware.hostzi.com/

  • Stuart Brontman

    September 1, 2010 at 6:28 pm

    Thanks for the suggestions. I’ll have a look.

We use anonymous cookies to give you the best experience we can.
Our Privacy policy | GDPR Policy