• Adobe After Effects

  Object skidding to a stop

  Posted by Rowby Goren on December 26, 2012 at 5:36 pm

  Hi

  Using After Effects CS5.

  I tried Googling this, thinking there would be plenty of tutorials/plugins to do this, but I couldn’t find anything that would suit my particular needs.

  I am creating an opening title. I have some Headline text that I created in Illustrator.

  I want the text to speed into the shot and SKID to a complete stop. IN an exaggerated cartoony (Tex Avery?) mode — adding skid marks and/or tire smoke burn would be an added plus.

  If importing the text from Illustrator is a problem, I could of course create the text directly in After Effects.

  Does anyone know of any tutorials or plugins that will help me do this.

  Thanks!

  Rowby

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  Tudor “ted” jelescu replied 13 years, 4 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Joseph W. bourke

  December 26, 2012 at 5:52 pm

  Take a look at the Ease and Wizz script here:

  https://aescripts.com/ease-and-wizz/

  While not a complete solution, it will give you a jumping off point to get the Tex Avery skid to a stop look. I think you might need to add Hold frames at certain points, since a skid stop sort of hangs the skidding object (friction), then suddenly lets go. So the object kind of halts, stretches forward, then springs back a bit when the friction lets go…does this make sense?

  I don’t see any specific tutorials on this either, but there are some really good books from Focal Press on the topic:

  https://www.focalpress.com/books/subjects/animation_3d_SCAR6005/

  Joe Bourke
  Owner/Creative Director
  Bourke Media
  http://www.bourkemedia.com
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  Vishesh Arora

  December 27, 2012 at 8:25 am

  Rowby

  “adding skid marks and/or tire smoke burn would be an added plus.”

  For skid marks, you can animate a Mask on a solid layer with Roughen Edges effect.

  For tire smoke burn, using Red Giants Trapcode Particular is an easy and great way.

  You can also create sparks using CC Particle World.

  Vishesh Arora
  3D and Motion Graphics Artist
  Films Rajendra

  Blog:
  https://digieffects.wordpress.com

  Demo Reel(3D):
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHPgIJU_BR8
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  Tudor “ted” jelescu

  December 27, 2012 at 7:26 pm

  Cartoon type animation is defined by exaggerated moves. Tune up anything you think normal and multiply it by 10 and you should get closer. Also, using Mesh Warp or Bezier Warp (under distort) to make the top of the text wobble back and forth when it stops could be a way to go.

  Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
  Senior VFX Artist

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