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  • text falls on the sand/ground

    Posted by Tielman Dewaele on February 21, 2007 at 11:29 pm

    Hello again,

    I making some movie about mexico, and i want to let the word: Mexico fall into the dessert on the sand/ground.
    Any ideas how to let this text fall(realistic), maby with expressions? Or do i just use pos and rotation to do that? Or use wiggler?
    It is a fake 3d text(x layers), it dont has to rotate or anything.

    Also i need to create dust when it falls. But lets start with the movement off the text : )

    Greetz

    Peace

    Tielman Dewaele replied 19 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Nate Vander plas

    February 22, 2007 at 2:48 am

    Do you want the text to sort of bounce when it hits the ground? If so, try shooting a piece of wood/metal/whatever material you like from the angle you want falling onto the ground. You can then motion track the four corners (make sure there is enough contrast between your background and your object) and apply that to your text. I’ve done a similar thing and it worked pretty nicely. You might consider recording the audio of your object dropping because that will make your text sound real too.

  • Mylenium

    February 22, 2007 at 6:55 am

    Simple keyframing would do best. Unless you want to simulate an extreme jolt from the impact of each letter, I don’t know what any expression would be good for, least of all wiggle(). For the dust you can use anything from masked Fractal Noise to particles systems.

    Mylenium

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  • Tielman Dewaele

    February 22, 2007 at 1:56 pm

    Alright, thanks AGAIN!!!

    Peace

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