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Tim Burton-like twirl effect
I’m trying to do some sort of warp effect on a masked layer similar to how the ground untwists under Jack Skelington’s feet in The Nightmare Before Christmas. If you are unfamiliar with the scene, the ground is spiraled underneath and bent inwards towards the character, and as he walks, it slowly unspirals to a straightish line.
The layer is footage of an arm. I want the destination shape to be the arm as is, straightened. The base of the layer is the arms elbow and i would prefer if that did not move during the shape change. The arm is kinda thick and I don’t want the spiral to be as extreme as in the movie, but enough so that it looks like the arms initial shape is twisted in, with the hand being at the center of the spiral and then extending out to the peak.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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CS3 has the puppet tool. Make the Hill/finger/arm whatever that thing is, straight in Photoshop, then import it to CS3, and distort it with the puppet tool. It’ll take some tweaking to get it perfect, but it should look good.
Or try anime studio pro, it has an intuitive rigging system.
Nicholas Toth
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Is there anyway to do the effect in AE 7?
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Eh, not really. You can use certain distort filters, but it isn’t going to look as good.
You could always break the hill into A LOT of different segments, set the anchor point to the base of the point, link all of the rotation points to a slider, and twist it like a chain. The more points the better it will look, and the more work it will be. That could look neat!
Nicholas Toth
Freelance Animator
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You could also try CC Bendit, depending on how much twist you need it might give the distorted effect you need.
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thanks for the help. i ended up upgrading to CS3. puppet tool worked nicely
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