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  Few questions on Coldplay’s latest lyrics video.

  Posted by Luc Trombini on October 2, 2013 at 10:34 am

  Hello there !

  Hope you are all well.
  Today i’m coming to you for a few questions, that might seems stupid but I don’t want to keep working ignoring some basic technique. Althought i’ve been working on AE for 4+years there are still some shadowy parts for me in there.

  Latest Coldplay video is a pretty simple and clean work (see it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh3TokLzzmw). And couple questions came up as I was watching it.

  1st: Infinite gradient in the background.
  How can you do that on after effects? Did they create a solid, with a gradient, made it huge and then switch to another gradient by fading the previous one with the opacity settings? That seems odd to me.

  2nd: at 1.20, 2.50 and so on you can see some lights rays coming from everywhere..
  How to do that? It looks fantastic.

  I would appreciate it a lot if some of you had the time to explain these effects.
  Bests regards from France,
  Luc.

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  Luc Trombini replied 12 years, 11 months ago 1 Member · 2 Replies
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  Luc Trombini

  October 4, 2013 at 7:40 am

  Indeed I see the link did not appear…
  Here it is again : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh3TokLzzmw
  Now people should understand my post a bit better :))

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  Luc Trombini

  October 7, 2013 at 4:38 pm

  Hi Dave !

  Like last time, your input is helping greatly.
  Indeed I think the drawings were made in Illustrator, but the part I was interested in, is the one with the lines.

  I agree it’s certainly 2D, except a part of the video around 2.44 and 3.40 where it seems to be 3D as the camera is flying throuh them.

  Question is, how was it done..? I would be interested in knowing the process, if it’s not too hard to explain, I don’t want to take a lot of your time.

  Bests,
  luc.

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