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Animating geometric swirling lines
I’m having trouble trying to describe, and therefore search the internet and forum for creating and animating lines like this:
I have the Trapcode Suite, so I was playing around with Stroke. I also tried to make a grid and keyframe Bezier warp but I’m not really getting what I want.
What I would like to create are these types of lines that are animated with a gentle wave type motion.
Any suggestions?
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5 Replies
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Nathan
Have a look at this tutorial:
https://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/motion-graphics/how-to-create-glowing-elegant-lines/
This is not the one you want but may help you to get the result you want.
Vishesh Arora
VFX and Motion Graphics Artist
Films RajendraBlog:
https://digieffects.wordpress.comDemo Reel(3D):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHPgIJU_BR8 -
Nathan
Try this:
1. Apply 3D stroke to a solid.
2. Make a path using pen tool(Try to use 3 or 4 four vertices) .
3. Go to Repeater, Enable it and then change settings as Required.
4. Animate the mask Path and all stroke will follow the same movement.Vishesh Arora
VFX and Motion Graphics Artist
Films RajendraBlog:
https://digieffects.wordpress.comDemo Reel(3D):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHPgIJU_BR8 -
Trapcode Stroke is the right path. Create a solid and make a smooth curvy mask. Apply stroke. In my example project I made the thickness 1.8, Feather 100, Enabled “Taper” and under the “Advanced” tab turned down the internal opacity to 40%.
The real magic occurs in the repeater tab. I turned up my instances to 8, play with the X & Y rotation and Z displacement for the initial look. Then start playing “Scale” and “Factor” and you should have something very similar.
Here’s the project I created: 4782_wavystrokelines.aep.zip
Hope that gets you on the right path(no pun intended)
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
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Thank you Vishesh and John.
John, your comp was more what I was looking for. Thanks for the starting point – It looks really good. It’s always cool to look at other people’s work!
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Glad I could help.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.
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