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  • Animating falling objects

    Posted by Lami Okrekson on April 23, 2008 at 4:16 pm

    Hi,

    This is gonna sound really weird as its a bit complicated to explain, but here goes:

    I’m working on this animation where I have a scene I created in Illustrator but am putting together as an animation using AE. The whole basis of the animation is that the objects in the scene fall out of the sky and then land in position on the ground.

    My problem is space. I want it to seem as if these objects are falling from space almost (a great height) so it’ll take a few seconds for them to eventually touch down. I also want a camera to follow the objects as the fall.

    How do I give the illusion of a great deal of space when working within a standard 800x600px window?

    Lami Okrekson replied 18 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Ron Coy

    April 23, 2008 at 8:19 pm

    well, you could animate the background whizzing by (clouds, birds, airplanes, smog, rooftops, etc) which would let you basically keep the focus on the objects, while creating the illusion of motion.

  • Lami Okrekson

    April 24, 2008 at 9:43 am

    thanks, i never thought of that.

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