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Activity Forums Adobe After Effects Animating material to look like FLAG!

  • Chris Wright

    June 24, 2008 at 7:38 am

    tinderbox can do flags

  • Joseph W. bourke

    June 24, 2008 at 1:43 pm

    The tutorial looks pretty straightforward to me, but you do have to have the Forge Freeform plugin to achieve it Ayato’s way. A simpler way, but not as good looking, is to simply use a Fractal Noise map in which the phase is moving from left to right (the way wind ripples do in a real flag). Play around with the settings, and then apply the rendered noise file as a bump map in AE. The best way to do it, in my opinion, is to do it in 3D Studio Max using a cloth modifier and wind. There’s also a Zaxwerks plugin called 3D Flag for $129. that does the work for you:

    https://zaxwerks.com/3dflag/index.shtml

    Joe Bourke
    Art Director / WMUR-TV

  • Jamil Yamani

    June 24, 2008 at 11:44 pm

    Hi there

    thanks i had another look at it and your right, its fairly straightforward. cost wise i think its best to go with the zaxwerks plugin and the freeform guys have still got the intel version of their plugin in beta anyway.

    i couldn’t see from all the tinderbox plugins which one might be suitable to achieve the effect i was looking for.

    thanks for your advice, its very much appreciated

    The Electric Canvas
    Large Format Projection Specialists
    Sydney, Australia

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