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  • achieving this text extrude animated effect

    Posted by Wilson Costa campos on June 23, 2016 at 10:37 am

    Hi everyone,

    I was trying to achieve this sort of effect that can be seen at https://vimeo.com/146869349 at around 2:42s
    Played a lot with after effects but couldn’t get the right look..
    Seems to be a directional blur but can’t get quite the same effect. could it be that it has a mask? but that would require a lot of work..
    if anyone knows or has an idea I would immensely appreciate it!

    Kind Regards!
    Wilson

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    Wilson Costa campos replied 9 years, 11 months ago 5 Members · 6 Replies
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  • Walter Soyka

    June 23, 2016 at 11:36 am

    I’d guess this was originally done in a 3D app, but you could pull off something similar with a fake 2.5D extrusion in Ae — set up many stacks of layers for each letter, offset by a single pixel or less in X, Y and Z.

    Something like this script could be helpful:
    https://aescripts.com/3d-extruder/

    Walter Soyka
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  • Joe Clay

    June 23, 2016 at 3:10 pm

    Interesting, I wrote a plugin with similar functionality. It has some bugs I haven’t been able to fix so I haven’t released it yet. :/

    Anyway, you might be able to get away with a few directional blurs, and some masks on the opposite side of the text. You’ll probably have to precomp it to do that.

    Joe Clay
    Workbench.tv

  • Kalleheikki Kannisto

    June 23, 2016 at 3:14 pm

    Here’s a fun one for you. Duplicate the layer a bunch of times (about 8) and see what happens…

    10219_blurtrail.aep.zip

  • Daniel Waldron

    June 23, 2016 at 4:14 pm

    You could also try messing around with a long shadow technique and some masking. Probably won’t achieve the exact look in the video this way though.

  • Wilson Costa campos

    June 23, 2016 at 4:29 pm

    thanks a lot for this! I found another way with trapcode starglow too but not quite the same

  • Wilson Costa campos

    June 23, 2016 at 5:26 pm

    thanks daniel it is very similar to this!

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