3D circle of a photo

[Kevin Camp]

cc cylinder will take and image and wrap it in a circle/cylinder. you can posistion a 3d camera in the center and then rotate the cylinder (you may need to rotate it via the effect settings) or the camera.

is that what you’re looking for?

Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Visionary Films]

im not for sure if i tired that or not…but if you just draw a large cirlce on paper and place the photo’s around it then animate the photo’s on a horizal plane that’s the effect i’m trying to do, as the photo’s come around you can see them in the background getting ready to come around to the front and away they go back around again.

i’ll print out the information you provided and once i’m back in the studio i’ll try what you stated…i’ll be online for another hour if you should write me back.

thanks for the help.

Rick

[Visionary Films]

yes that’s it…thanks for the help, downloading the trial version now from adobe…it states you only have 5 days to use the full program before it locks up, that’s all the time i need.

Again thanks for the help.

Director Rick Carr
http://www.myspace.com/enchantedstorms

[Kevin Camp]

cc cylinder won’t do what you need, it will stretch one layer into a cylinder…

i’m sure i’ve seen expressions or scripts that will position layers in a circle, and as dave mentioned parenting them to a null and rotating the null shoul work well… you should also be able to enable auto-orient for those layers and they will always face the camera, if needed.

trapcode’s echo space would work well if the images are all the same.

Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Visionary Films]

sweet, i’ll keep you posted tomorrow to let u know how the effect took place.

thanks for the help…rick out.

[Mike Clasby]

The quickest way to do,what you want is with this French Expression, “sphereoscarus”, here:

https://www.aenhancers.com/viewtopic.php?t=160&highlight=sphere

Download, unzip, click on the aep. Then just swap in your layers for the blue oval layers surrounding the sphere. Then delete the blue layers you don’t need.

Rotate the Sphere by rotating the Null.

Change the “rayon” in the slider to change the Radius.

The “angle” slider change how far apart the layers are and how many fit around the circumference of the sphere. Decrease the angle for less layers around the outside, Increase for more, you’ll see, it adjusts automatically.

Deactivate the Orientation expression, if you don’t want the layer facing the center of the sphere. You can then Layer>Transform>Auto-Orient>Orient Towards Camera, if you want the layers to all look at the camera.

Viva le France! OK, a little carried away, but this setup is so cool the writer needed an accolade.

[Mike Clasby]

To “swap in your layers for the blue oval layers”,

Drag your footage from the Project window onto a Selected layer in the timeline. Just in case you hadn’t done that before.

[Steve Morris]

CC Cylinder will work if you just put alpha space on each side of the picture in the original PSD document. Then use multiple instances of that layer, use CC Cylinder’s rotation to space the pictures out. It was a while back when I made a group of photos circle in exactly the same manner the original poster is looking for. It was a while back when I did this, maybe I used a wider precomp instead.

[Kevin Camp]

i had made something similar too using cc cylinder… it was to created a ‘virtual set’ piece with several video screen cylinders that were stacked on top of each other, offset and rotating differently… each video screen cylinder was made of curved screens wrapped around a cylinder.

i just made a comp that was wide enough for around 6-8 video screens, then took that to another comp and used cc cylinder.

but the images were curved by the effect, i take it that the poster wanted flat images…

Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Steve Morris]

Ah….I didn’t see that he wanted the picture to remain straight.