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Fake golf ball – any ideas?
Hi,
I’m new(ish) to AE and looking ideally for a tutorial/advice on how to create a specific effect.
I have a scene where the actor hits a golf ball past and towards the camera – the golf ball is not actually there – the actor just plays it out. How best to go about this is AE do you think? I can create a textured ball and animate it, is that correct? I obviously want to make it look sphere-like and “light” it correctly. Any advice/tuition at all would be appreciated.
Many thanks!
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I’d get a Golf Bar texture, apply CC Sphere to it and use play with the CC Sphere lighting parameters to composite it into the scene. Then just animate with Sphere scale/rotation parameters when it’s hit. Probably add CC force motion blur to it also.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
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Little more to it then just applying it to CC Sphere. Check out this tutorial on using CC Glass to create bump maps…there’s actually a discussion in the comments about creating a golf ball.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb. -
Adding a 3D golf ball model with Element 3D is another option.
Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
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Wow guys – thanks for all the input, the bump map and CC sphere seems a good option – wish me luck!
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how far away is the camera from the golf ball…because if it starts off small and whips by the camera fast enough, a simple picture of a golf ball could work
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Okay guys – just to tie this up neatly. I got a golfball texture and used CC sphere on it; I played with the lighting and shading parameters and animated the sphere. It looks great! The thing is, I put in all that effort and once motion blur was added, I realised I could have gained the same effect with a simple white circle! 😀
We live and learn. The ball itself though looks great, so would recommend the sphere/texture combo to anyone trying to recreate it 🙂
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