blooming flower effect

[Steve Roberts]

If you want the flower to look Illustrative, adapt the growing vine tutorial. It’s the same thing, only with petals, not leaves.

Now if they want it realistic or 3D, they should hire a 3D animator.

Heather, a big part of an artist’s capabilities lies in knowing which effects can be achieved with which tools, even if the artist doesn’t have those tools. It’s part of client education. This requires a lot of research, and experimentation with editing apps, 3D applications and particles to name a few. Once you’ve messed around with those apps, you can say when it would be best to use 3D, even if it has to be farmed out to a third party. I’d advise all artists learn this before they run up against a roadblock (e.g. AE can’t do water collisions) the night before delivery, when farming it out would have been better.

[Heather Crank]

Thank you Steve I agree completely!

I appreciate your feedback.

Thank you,

Heather

[Joseph W. bourke]

Heather –

Sometimes it’s easier to use practical effects to get the job done. I think it is probably easier to buy the time-lapse footage of a Hibiscus blooming than it would be to animate it, either in AE or in 3D.

Here’s a reference shot from YouTube, should you decide to take the difficult route:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qnm7ZIYgp0&mode=related&search=

Here’s a link to a guy who shot a Hibiscus himself – he might license it to you:

https://physicles.org/media/tl.html

Here’s one that you could license – it’s listed as stock photography – if the client is willing to take a real flower:

https://itnsource.com/en/Video-Clip-Store/Digitised/?libRef%3dK03430%26dreReference%3d%2fConcepts%2fK03430.htm%26startResult%3d0%26maxResults%3d6%26addedRating%3d0

Otherwise you can use the above as reference footage. If you have Photoshop CS3, you can even hand paint your time-lapse using the footage in the background layer for reference. Good luck!

Joe Bourke
Art Director / WMUR-TV

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[Heather Crank]

Thank you Joe, I really appreciate all the references. I didn’t expect the client to ask for something like this, and it’s really great to have the cow as a reference/sounding board. Especially when it’s an area I’m not so familiar with…

Thanks again!

Heather

[Paul]

I couldn’t help responding… there were some free after effects projects given out a time ago and it had a 2d…growing flower effect. It is kind of neat… may not be what you’re looking for but who knows.

Just a thought.

[Mike Smith]

This query reminded me of a project I saw on the Forge Freeform site recently … though a question was raised over whether freeform plays nice with late / current versions of AE …

Link:
https://www.forge.net/flwr_tray.htm

[Heather Crank]

Hey thanks Mike for the link! I’m going to fiddle with freeform. And Thank you Paul. I haven’t been able to find that tutorial but I’ll keep looking.

H

[Paul]

It was an actual after effects project…if you’d like I could send it to you.

[Heather Crank]

Thanks Paul, that would be great. Send it to heathernoel1@earthlink.net.

H

[Anmol Mishra]

Hi Paul. Do you mind if I get this too (the 2-D Blooming flower project) or a link to it ?
amish153 ( at ) hotmail.com
Thanks!
– Anmol