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Batman Begins / WB logo
I need to create something close to the WB/Batman Begins logo open. It is a WB logo and then all these small bats start to fly at screen and the logo fades away (made up from all the bats). I was starting to do this by hand, and thought there has to be a better way?
https://www.apple.com/quicktime/guide/hd/batmanbegins.html
thx!
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if u take a good look at the scene u can see that the logo doesnt actualy turn into the bats. The logo fades away in an inward radial leaving the bat footage showing through it.
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yeah. they did a cheese fade on the logo. Is there a way to do a quick animation (maybe three frames of a bat’s or a bee in my case wings flapping) and then multiply it easliy so I can get a swarm? Am I looking into expressions? or is there something a little easier?
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http://www.trapcode.com
Particular is a good way to make something like this. they have a demo project on their site that creates flocks of birds and the like. Free demo too. Might be what you’re lookin for. -
Look into Trapcode Particular, it can do swarms/flocks like what you’re looking for fairly easily and cheap as well. You can download a trial at http://www.trapcode.com. Hope that helps.
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i think i found a tutorial that will help you with this
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=863275
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Thanks! I’m checking it now. The Trapcode works great too!
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Particle Illusion 3 also has a “take color from underlying layer” setting for particles (or something like that). You could build your bats however you were intending to create them (3D?) and then use them as a particle shape in PI. They could take their color from the WB logo layer and then just explode the layer into fluttering bats. There’s a Sci-Fi Channel promo where a woman dissolves into a thousand butterflies that I’d bet was done with PI.
Just a thought.
– Dex
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