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Concatenated String Effects.
Rather odd question, but here goes. I’m doing a music video where I have actors shots on GS and I am doing a 90 degree curve dolly track move around them. The female has blowing hair and what I am trying to to is come up with a way to link her slow motion blowing hair to some sort of string particle type of effect much like Trapcode Form using the right strings preset or something to that effect. I am just racking my brain and having a hard time coming up with a way where her hair moves would somehow drive these ‘strings’ and they would move based on that movement from the hair source. The basic idea is that her hair turns into these strings and the strings move from her head and offscreen. Any ideas would be very helpful on how to do this in AE. If you have any questions or I have not described it well enough please let me know and thanks in advance.
Joe
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Lol, ya if only I would have been there when they shot it. Either way I figured it out. Thanks for the input.
J
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Well I had to create a trapcode particular effect for certain strings. I set them to no velocity and a high amount with some wind headed in the direction the hair was blowing. Then I tracked the emission point to certain points on the hair. This made the string have the effect on down the line of the hair movement that created it. I did a few of these and then created a strings pattern and expanded the matte of the actress and blurred it and used that to drive a displacement map of the other particles so they inherited the movement of the hair. Mixing these with the tracked particular strings did the trick and created the correspondence.
Joe
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Sounds very cool. I would love to see the outcome. Is it available on the web?
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Mark,
Not yet, but once we finish the project in a couple months it will be and I’ll post a link.
Joe
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