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simulate LED signage
I need to simulate text moving on an LED sign, with individual bulbs.
see example:
I could create a matte with dots to simulate each bulb, but when I use that matte to display the text, some of the dots are half exposed (due to the curvature of the type) and looks fake.
The challenge is to create a comp where the bulbs only “light up” where the text is.
any ideas?
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4 Replies
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Try CC Ball Action, play around with ball size and grid spacing.
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Hi,
Depending on how realistic you need this to look, there are a couple of methods I can think of.
I did something similar recently using Trapcode Form, with a grid of sphere particles and a precomp driving the opacity and colour values for the particles. As this was part of the background of a fast-moving animation, I didn’t worry to much about making it very realistic, but it looked pretty good.
An other method I’ve seen is to use a grid of lights, and then use expressions to sample the precomp with the content for the light wall to drive the colour and luminosity of the lights. It looks great, but the number of lights can slow even powerful machines to a crawl! There’s a really detailed tutorial here:
https://qubahq.com/2010/08/tutorialpreset-light-wall/Mat
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This page [link] has links to several good tutorials.
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Thanks mucho!
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