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3D tunnel particle effects in Motion 5?
I feel like I should be able to do this already, and yet, here I am. Trying to make a background in Motion 5 with sort of an infinity tunnel effect. . .taking one or more of the particle emitters, and having light rays or bubbles or ephemeral clouds etc. shooting toward the “camera” from a point infinitely far away, particles enlarging as they reach the cam and blurring/filling the frame when they’re right at the camera. The camera will not move through the tunnel, rather, cam stays static and things shoot toward it from far away. Probably something really simple that I am missing. I have messed with 3D/cameras before but not tried to do anything quite like this. Can anyone help? Thanks.
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I would skip the camera and just use the Scale Over Life parameter to make the particles look like they are streaming toward you.
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net -
Ah. Intriguing.
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Ok, related. . .if you want the effect of “rays” shooting toward the “camera”, this is another thing I can’t figure out. I’m talking where the particles would emit but each ray would appear to shoot toward you (or, think of the general look of any spaceship zooming through space/stars at high speed). Seems simple but I can’t quite get it. If you use a line as the particle/cell, it’s not going to shoot toward you correctly…we would want the line to travel toward you along its long axis, appearing to enlarge as it reaches you. But Motion will just spit them out the way they look as stills/images, which breaks the illusion. Know what I mean? I tried using a dot and extruding but that did the same thing, even making the “back” of the extrusion smaller than the front.
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I would just use the Slit Tunnel or Slit Scan filter.
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net -
Ah. Ok. I will mess with those.
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