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  • Transition from several windows|Quads turning randomly

    Posted by Leandro Sarmento da silva on January 23, 2013 at 1:33 pm

    look this animation, specifically in 00;51 https://goo.gl/YTgqm

    begins an animation of various (windows | squares) Turning randomly to show another image …
    Consider, Shadow, Reflection and other propiedades, I believe that has been done in 3D.
    Does anyone know of any tutorials? Whether on or after any other software?

    Vishesh Arora replied 13 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • John Cuevas

    January 23, 2013 at 3:49 pm

    You could build this in a 3D app, but unless you could create a very reasonable copy using After Effects. Using the card wipe, bevel and drop shadow, I made a pretty comparable effect. The trick to creating the “randomness” for the card wipe is by using a gradient layer to drive the effect. By creating a precomp that contained fractal noise with the contrast turned way up, you get the random card flipping. Card wipe has built in lighting to provide highlights…it doesn’t create shadows though. In the transition, they had the video stay in the back as it flipped, so I changed the ambient light to 1, to match the video.

    Another thing I did was scale everything up to 102% to hide the bevel. If you scale down to 100% you would see it around the edge of the screen and you don’t want that.

    Here’s a quick project I created, it should give you a nice starting point, if you have any questions let me know: 5284_cardwipetransitionfolder.zip

    Johnny Cuevas, Editor
    Thinkck.com

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  • Vishesh Arora

    January 24, 2013 at 7:47 am

    Leandro

    You can also manually create the box shapes and animate as required.

    See the tutorial

    Vishesh Arora
    3D and Motion Graphics Artist
    Films Rajendra

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    https://digieffects.wordpress.com

    2011 3D Demo Reel:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHPgIJU_BR8

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