Animated graph?

[Steve Roberts]

If you had $495, you could buy this plugin.

If not, you could do a line graph by creating a new solid, drawing a mask (point by point) with the pen tool, then applying the stroke effect to that solid. By animating the stroke’s end point parameter with keyframes, you can make the graph grow.

For a bar graph, you could make a bunch of solids, each to the desired size and color, then you could use the pan behind tool and drag the anchor point to the bottom of each solid, so when you scale their height up or down, they scale from the bottom as you’d expect a bar graph to do.

That’s about it — if you don’t understand any of the terms in italics, check the AE help.

[Lee Mceachern]

Thanks, Steve. Appreciate the help. Hmmmm…don’t think this project can afford the $495. But thanks for pointing out the site. I’ll go to work the manual way, as you suggested.

Cheers,

Lee

[Steve Roberts]

No problem, Lee. And if you need a pie chart, consider applying the transition>radial wipe effect to a circle-masked solid or two.

Cheers,
Steve

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

US$495 is too much for a one-trick pony. Chekcout Mylenium’s site, he’s got at least one AEP on line graphs. I recall seeing a tutorial on pie-charts too but I can’t recall where.
In fact, for line graphcs, all you need is the Stroke plugin.

HTH
Roland Kahlenberg
broadcastGEMs
customizable animated backdrops with Adobe After Effects project files

[Colin Braley]

I would think you dont need the plug in…line graphs are easy enought with render > stroke, pie charts can be done with radial wipe as Steve said above, and I’ve done bar graphs with expressions before and it isnt too tough.
~Colin

[Lee Mceachern]

Great. I’ve just been to Mylenium’s site and he does, in fact, have a line graph tutorial. I’ll be taking a look. Thanks to all for your suggestions.

Lee

[Jim Tierney]

It’s hardly a one trick pony. There’s seven different chart types that handle a wide range of data types, from simple monthly sales figures to multi-dimensional scientific data. That’s a lot of different ways to visualize data. If you do a lot of presentation type work where you need to display data, it saves a lot of time and gives you a lot of flexibility.

That said, if you just need the occasional bar chart, yes it’s expensive and that’s not who the product was designed for. To that end, we’re coming out with a lite version of it that will have the basic 2D business charts and some off-shoot plugins aimed at motion graphic artists that just generate animated chart-like elements using random data and/or math functions for backgrounds and whatnot. Should be about $200 and be out around DVExpo (mid-Nov.).

cheers,
Jim

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Jim Tierney
Digital Anarchy
http://www.digitalanarchy.com
415-586-8434

[Emannuel Rojas]

thanks a lot for the radial wipe tip, it was what i came here looking for.