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Arrows
Hi all
I want to have some arrows moving around the screen. For example, through a maze, and i want them to leave a trail behind them, where they have been. If anyone has seen the tv show, Comedy Connections, they do something similar on that.
If anyone could give me any help on how to achieve the effect? Im guessing i would have to have an animated mask, revealing the arrow trail as i went? Is there a standard way to achieve set this up?
Cheers all.
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3 Replies
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It seems to me, Ian that I saw a tutorial once about animating the Lewis and Clark trail across a map of the country. I can’t find it at the moment, but as I recall it involved creating a path with the bezier pen, and then using stroke with the stroke distance spread out.
This isn’t the tutorial I was thinking of, but here’s an article by Chris & Tish Meyers. It seems to do the same thing.
https://www.dv.com/columns/columns_item.php?category=Motion+Graphics&subGenre=&articleId=175801317
Andrea Stewart
Producer/Editor/Director – Owner
Germane Creative LLC -
Thanks! That was just what i was looking for! Brilliant stuff.
One more thing, anyone, how do i paste an illustrator path or eps as a mask shape?
Cheers
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Simple. Just COPY from Illustrator to your clipboard; Create a new layer (use a solid comp size); Click on the Position in the new solid. PASTE. You can then take the keyframes from the position and Make a New Mask. then paste those keyframes on the new mask shape. That should do it. It may be that you can just make a new mask and then paste the clipboard on the mask shape line directly. I can’t recall.
Also, make sure in the stroke pallette that the paint style is set to “on transparent”.
Andrea Stewart
Producer/Editor/Director – Owner
Germane Creative LLC
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