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  Animated arrow on map

  Posted by Doug Eli on April 17, 2009 at 7:28 pm

  I want to do the generic arrow from one country to another to go along with narration that says ‘they left England for…..’ I can do basic flat 2D boring arrows, but I’m stumped on how to get it to be a nice 3D looking arching arrow. Any tips?

  Also…how do I map a photo to a shape? I have a person icon that I want to map a nations flag to. Right now I’m using a mask to do this, but that behaves strangely in that when I move the entire group the placement of the map on the person shifts. Might be best to go with Photoshop and make them all there then import them to Motion as PNG files. Regardless, I’d still like to know how to map images to shapes, text, etc in Motion. I used to be able to do this in Red very easily, but have not found the magic button in Motion yet.

  FYI…I’m a Lynda.com subscriber so if there are any ‘must see’ movies there that will help I can view them.

  Stephen Smith replied 17 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Stephen Smith

  April 17, 2009 at 10:32 pm

  [Doug] how do I map a photo to a shape?

  If I understand the question correctly I would say, “Use an Image Mask”. Here is a link to a tutorial that briefly talks about it, it is in the middle of the tutorial.

  https://library.creativecow.net/articles/smith_stephen/motion_hologram.php

  Hope this helps.

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