3d Animation Lines…

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

I would guess that that was done with 3D (At least I’d do it that way) – however there is a tutorial on creating a filmstrip that uses a plug-in for AE, called Forge Freeform, that can do something like that , through I don’t really know much about it.

https://www.forge.net/ffae_filmstrip.htm

Also, maybe Trapcode’s 3D stroke can help too:

https://trapcode.com/products_3dstroke.html

If I were doing it in 3D, with Maya, I’d create some curves I wanted my strip to follow, then create some strips with lots of polygons, and then set to animate on the path, and then deform to the path.

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[Chris Smith]

I agree it was 3D and not 3D stroke. Because of the shape of the ends of the lines and also because they are bending in true 3D space and not on 2d flat planes in 3D space.

Another approach is to simply create the lines in 3d space using stripes on a bent piece of geoetry. Then render out a camera moving down the “line”.

Render these stripes out one at a time on 4 different layers.

Then in AE add a linear wipe to each layer set to vertical and about 50%. At this point the camera move itself will do all the work making the stripes look like they are being grown as you move by them.

Then add a slow wiggler to the linear wipe percent so it looks like they gain ground on the camera move and slow down from the cam move. Do this with different settings for each stripe so they look like they are “racing” and growing at different rates.

Chris Smith
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[Cave]

ok, thanks, i finally got it.

i did it with cinema 4d.
first create a spline line, and a square.
then include this in a sweep-nurbs and animate the grow-rate-factor.
thats it.

[Guy]

Yes, this was done in true 3D space. Could have been anyone of the many apps/systems that support true 3D space, even flame or smoke could pull this off.

Unfortunately not AE (unless you really broke your back using forge freeform.

hopefully one day AE will support true 3D space with 3D objects (hear that Adobe!)

[Aaron Schurman]

There is also an amazing plugin for Cinema4D called “path deformer lite” that does excatly that and makes it super easy. Just thought I would throw that in there!

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[Cave]

cool, even better!

[Jamie]

hello there

does anyone know of a way of doing it in after effects only as i want to do the same but dont have access to cinema 4D. Any help would be greatfully received

cheers

jamie

[Chris Smith]

You could get a “similar” effect using 3D stroke by trapcode. You could use Forge Freeform as mentioned above. You could map a strip jumping from flat plane to flat plane that are bent in 3d space which will look hard on the edges and not curved though.

Or for $100 Maxon sells Cinema 4D ver 6 called Cinema 4D CE.

Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com

[David Oulashian]

Where did you see that $100 version of Cinema4D? I checked the Maxon website and couldn’t find that anywhere (and they indicate they are on ver9– you mentioned version 6)?

Please explain if you could — I would love to get into a 3D program.

David Oulashian

[Steve Roberts]

I seem to have lost the link.

Try calling Maxon’s sales team at 877-226-4628 or 805-376-3333.

Steve