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  • Circle origami unfold together

    Posted by Brad Hodgson on January 22, 2013 at 4:31 am

    Hey all!

    I’ve done many unfolding animations, but I was asked about this and I can’t figure an easy way to do it. In fact, I initially thought I’d have to figure out how to do it in C4D… but I gave it a shot in AE and came semi-close for a rough pass. Basically, the best way to describe it, is it a folded paper circle opened up at the same time to reveal itself. Remember those MASH games when you were a kid? Same concept… I can fold things out in linear steps, no problem… but can’t figure out if there is a way to connect the “points” that need to stay connected as the circle opens (like a flower). Here is an animation of a rough I did today. Basically, I built one side, duped it and flipped it, and then built top and bottom as filler to cover gaps where points didn’t connect… it’s not ideal as I also need to to try and include a client card in the precomp so it unfolds with the animation which means that gets flipped all which ways. Any thoughts? Can expressions help me at all here?

    circle unfold

    Brad Hodgson

    Brad Hodgson replied 13 years, 3 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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