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Trouble get polished metal shape to deteriorated to rust
I have to make a pan and scan animation of an ornamental metalwork panel that transitions from polished stainless steel to rust and then deteriorate. I’m halfway there but struggling with getting the panel to look like polished metal, and getting to look like it’s rusting away. Used 3d shapes, alpha mattes, linear wipes. Can’t seem to get it to look like metal.
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Try creating a new solid and add Fractal Noise, but reduce its transform to just 5% scale.
Then add a gradient wipe effect to your rust layer, point this at the fractal noise layer and offset the keyframes with the linear wipe.
What should happen is that the rust spots appear and grow.
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What makes something look metallic is it’s reflective characteristics. A way to fake it in 2D is to add a Gradient effect that goes from top to bottom, add the Bevel Alpha effect, then add Colorama and pick one of the metallic color options for the output. Play with the bevel amount and see how it changes. Also, if your “camera” is moving, it’d be a good idea to animate the reflection changing. The easiest way to do that is to animate the angle of the Bevel Alpha effect.
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Been too busy to reply with solutions(sorry), but I have to compliment your rust, looks really good.
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Hi Michael, thank you. You can see the test on the site i am building for my work. Any critiques on the animation welcomed. http://www.kuslanskyelectric.com (WIP)
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Hi John,
Thank you. I guess the best way to describe my AE is intermediate with a desire to learn how to make those cool movie trailers like True Detective….e
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