-
Animated light sweep, revealing a glowing outline
Ok..I’ve looked through and applied some light effects and can’t get what I want, which is:
I have a vector object (some wings) which is black right now, and I would like a light ray to start bursting through the center, change to a vertical line “ray” and move both right and left concurrently, revealing the wings; however, the wings won’t now be all made up of light, instead the light rays will reveal the wings’ outline, which will now be outlined in a backlit glow. I hope I’m explaining this clearly.
Will I need trapcode for this? Something else?**I look down at where you’re standing
Flock of sheep all on display
With all your lies piled up around you
I can take it all away** -
17 Replies
-
If you don’t have trapcode shine, you could apply CC Radial Fast blur to your wings. To keep the original wing shape, you may want to have a duplicate, uneffected layer at the bottom of the stack.
Precomp the entire thing and try CC Light Wipe. Change the shape to doors, angle to 90 degrees and reverse the transition.
I made a quick project using some text, might be easier to see rather than try to understand my rambling explanations.
3308_lightraytransition.aep.zip
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com -
You’re overestimating my understanding of the program. I need more step by step stuff.
My pic is black. I tried applying the fast blur and nothing happened. The end of the animation would look like the whole object is outlined in a glow of rays.**I look down at where you’re standing
Flock of sheep all on display
With all your lies piled up around you
I can take it all away** -
John has provided a great project, very nicely done. Very kind of him to take the time to do it. Big thanks john from everyone on the list, much appreciated.
Danielle, I’m not sure if you know about it already but the After Effects basics forum is specifically for people who are still learning After Effects and need more instruction. So if you feel that you need more “step-by-step” instruction it may be best to look there for answers to this.
Let me see what I can come up with and I’ll post something on that forum later today. Watch this space!
Hope this helps!
cheers,
Angie
Angie Taylor animation & illustration for television, film, web and devices
https://www.angietaylor.co.uk
Twitter: theangietaylor
Linkedin: theangietaylor
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Angie-Taylor/118378194869002 -
Oh yes i didn’t mean to come off as if I don’t appreciate any time anyone takes to help me. I apologize if it seemed that way!
I think I’m not seeing the blur b/c it’s black on black. Should I repost this in that other forum?
Thanks.
Sometimes I’m not sure which forum to use as some questions can fit into all three.**I look down at where you’re standing
Flock of sheep all on display
With all your lies piled up around you
I can take it all away** -
No worries Danielle, it’s always hard to communicate by forums and email and you didn’t come across badly. I just wanted to make sure that John knew we appreciated him! 🙂
I’ll post a tutorial a bit later today with another technique that you can use. Give me two or three hours then I’ll post it for you.
cheers,
Angie
Angie Taylor animation & illustration for television, film, web and devices
https://www.angietaylor.co.uk
Twitter: theangietaylor
Linkedin: theangietaylor
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Angie-Taylor/118378194869002 -
OK, here it is at last! The Light Wipe tutorial I promised you!
Enjoy!
https://www.angietaylor.co.uk/after-effects-light-wipe-tutorial/
cheers,
Angie
Angie Taylor animation & illustration for television, film, web and devices
https://www.angietaylor.co.uk
Twitter: theangietaylor
Linkedin: theangietaylor
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Angie-Taylor/118378194869002 -
Hey Angie! TY for taking the time to do this for me!
I’m trying the version w/out the trapcode. I’ve applied a stroke but nothing is happening. You said you copied and pasted a mask from IL. I just have a black vector of wings (they’re attached to each other so it’s one object). Do I have to convert it to a mask or something??**I look down at where you’re standing
Flock of sheep all on display
With all your lies piled up around you
I can take it all away** -
There are potentially a few ways to approach getting the strokes you need. In Illustrator copy the paths. Now in After Effects, create a solid and paste your masks. Now you can apply the stroke and proceed in the way Angie suggested.
If for some reason you can’t copy the strokes from Illustrator, you can select your layer in AE and under the layer tab, use the “auto-trace” feature.
Another option is to just create your own masks in AE.
Let us know how it goes.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com -
To copy and paste a mask from Illustrator to After Effects there are a couple of things you need to do;
1) In Illustrator. Go to Preferences > File Handling and Clipboard
2) Make sure the Preserve Paths option is selected
3) Select the Path and copy it
4) In AE, create a solid (Cmd/ Ctrl – Y) the size of your comp
5) With it selected, go to Edit > Paste. The mask should be visible now on your layer. (If not, make sure the Mask Display toggle is on in the Comp panel)
6) If you need to adjust it, Hit Command (ctrl) – T to Free Transform it.
7) Apply the Stroke effect, make sure to select the All Masks option.
Hope this helps.
cheers,
Angie
Angie Taylor animation & illustration for television, film, web and devices
https://www.angietaylor.co.uk
Twitter: theangietaylor
Linkedin: theangietaylor
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Angie-Taylor/118378194869002 -
Thank you both. About to try that now.
Question: when checking the ‘preserve paths’ option, what are you changing? Iow, what does ‘preserve appearance and overprints’ (the other option) do? Will I have to change this back when doing other work?
And why does AE need a path? Why does an imported vector object not work?
Thx**I look down at where you’re standing
Flock of sheep all on display
With all your lies piled up around you
I can take it all away**
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up