-
Animating chevron arrows
I have to create a chart with arrows that animate in a cycling way. I could take a regular arrow and apply motion tile so it keeps repeating itself going in a certain direction then applying a soft mask to bracket it.
However I’m thinking it might look better to use chevron arrows. (sample attached) I did some masks on that to bracket it’s length but it looks pretty fake. It’s hard to describe what I’m looking for… maybe as one chevron reaches the end of its area that leading chevron (object) fades and the once behind it follow suit as they reach the end of the line. I imagine there is a font character that looks like this and I could better achieve this with text animation, best route.? I’m just starting, ideas welcome.
Thanks for any help in advance,
Paul
p.s. somehow I associate cycling chevron arrows with weather maps, it’s not what I’m doing but the reference might help picture this
-
6 Replies
-
Hi Paul –
I would definitely explore the animated text solution using an Arrow typeface. There are plenty of free ones out there:
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com -
-
Thanks Joe & Brian, things are looking promising. Brian I get the idea of what you suggest and thanks for creating the proj file but I only have AE CS 5.5
Paul
-
-
Thanks Brian!
-
maybe this arrow preset will help, combined with repeater of course:
https://www.vdodna.com/products/arrow-preset/ -
You can create that easily now with ArrowHead Tool just create the first arrow duplicate it a few times and create spaces between the copies with the ArrowHead Start and end values, you can see the result in the image below. cheers!
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up