Arrows

[Joseph W. bourke]

I haven’t tried this before, but could you use the body graphic as a custom Displacement Map?

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

[Stig Olsen]

Hi Joseph,

You can see what Im trying to achieve here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzHUsyZamgM

Stig

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[Kevin Camp]

you’d create a path on a solid and use the stroke effect to animate the line, or create a path as a shape layer and use the stroke property and use trim paths to animate the line.

then you can select the mask/path property and copy/paste it onto a layer that will be the arrow head. right click that layer and choose transform>auto orient and select along path. then adjust the timing to match the line.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

To get the arrows to follow the shape of the body I can think of 2 ways:

1- 3d arrows following a path- Zaxwerks 3d Serpentine.

2- animate an arrow flow on a flat layer, precompose and distort in 3d to follow the shape of the body using Free Form or FreeForm Pro.

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist

[Stig Olsen]

Thank you,

Kevin, I can have the arrows follow the line, but with your method I cant have the arrows bend to follow the curves of the body. like in 3D. Any suggestion?

Stig

[Jason Jantzen]

Or use C4D spline wrap 😉 I know, not AE, but some things aren’t always an AE job.

Jason Jantzen
vimeo.com/jasonj

[Joseph W. bourke]

You might give the Puppet Tool a try. It will allow you to warp your arrows, but you would have to do all the keyframing of points by hand.

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com