• Adobe After Effects

  3D images fly through

  Posted by Pedro Monsalve on December 13, 2010 at 11:52 pm

  Hey ya’ll I have a technical question on how to pull this effects off, I figure I can do it with a ton of images, and perhaps mapping some to particles to replicate a larger quantity, but before venturing into this, I wanted to get some advice on how to pull this off, any plugins need for this, or simply done by hand, and I mean by hand trying to fugue it out without plugins.

  Here’s a sample:

  https://img139.imageshack.us/img139/2974/multiimages.gif

  Thanks in advance.

  Kurt Johnson replied 11 years, 6 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  Walter Soyka

  December 14, 2010 at 2:01 am

  Unless you really need a high degree of control over the animation, I’d use a particle system.

  There’s a tutorial on this here on the COW:

  https://library.creativecow.net/articles/birnholz_rob/red_giant_3d_montage.php

  Walter Soyka
  Principal & Designer at Keen Live
  Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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  Tudor “ted” jelescu

  December 14, 2010 at 7:22 am

  I think you can use just the stock AE plugins and get the same effect. There are in fact quite a few Q&A on this forum about this.
  Here’s what I suggested before:

  Card Dance is the plugin you’re after.
  This tutorial can help:
  https://www.heroturko.org/tutorials/32337-maxafter-card-dance-effect-tutorialproject-file.html

  Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
  Senior Compositor/VFX Artist
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  Walter Soyka

  December 14, 2010 at 5:23 pm

  [Tudor "Ted" Jelescu] “Card Dance is the plugin you’re after.
  This tutorial can help:
  https://www.heroturko.org/tutorials/32337-maxafter-card-dance-effect-tutoria...”

  That’s a really elegant approach.

  Walter Soyka
  Principal & Designer at Keen Live
  Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
  RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
  Creative Cow Forum Host: Live & Stage Events
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  Pedro Monsalve

  December 14, 2010 at 7:40 pm

  Guys I really appreciate all the help, card dance looks like the way to go … thanks all for your guidance.

  Thanks a lot.
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  Kurt Johnson

  January 7, 2015 at 3:50 am

  Hey folks, I know this thread is ages old, but I’m wondering if anyone has an active link to the project mentioned here? When I follow the URL “Ted” posted, it goes to one of those labyrinthian “free” download sites that asks for a credit card number. Fun!

  I have some serious 3D photo fly throughs to make, something like 200+ employees in the mix. I know there are a million ways to do this, but I’m looking for the “elegant” solution!

  Thanks a bunch!

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