COW Tutorials: After Effects Creating the 3D Ribbon Effect

[Chris Smith]

Note: If you don’t have the Mograph module you can just use a Sweepnurbs with a flat rectangle as a profile spline along with a path spline (helix in the tut example). Then just animate the “Start” and “End” growth parameter in unison. Works just like “Stroke” in AE.

Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com

[Mylenium]

Oh please Aharon, give us MOVs. My security tools are beeping all over the place and I can’t for the life of me get this JavaScript-based thingy to show up.

Mylenium

[Pour Myl

[Steve Roberts]

Yep. You can do that very easily. It was the first thing I did in C4d.

[Sam Moulton]

i’m getting stuttering audio and lagging video with this tut on a new mac with 3 gig ram unless I close all other browser windows. overhead is way high on this tut. looked for it as a podcast but no joy there. finally got through it but much prefer the old way of doing things

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

It plays fine for me, but I guess I have to work out the kinks. it’s still going to be flash, but I’ll figure something out. I replaced the camtasia preloader with a special cow preloader, but I must have messed something up.

If we repost with the original preloader, can I ask you folks to re-test it? I’ll let you know when it’s up there.

Oh, and chris, good point. yes you can do it with a sweep nurbs, and there’s even a free plugin for C4D that will do it as well, but – you don’t have nearly the control over a sweepnurbs that you do with MoGraph.

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[Chris Smith]

[Aharon Rabinowitz] “- you don’t have nearly the control over a sweepnurbs that you do with MoGraph. “

Not necessarily. If you look at my 3Dstroke plug-in for C4D (see link below), using Xpresso I have complete control over length, tapering on both end, etc. Don’t get me wrong, I have and use the hell out of mograph, but a Sweepnurbs with a little Xpresso can go miles.

https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com/CSTools.zip

Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

Fair enough. I’ll check it out.

BTW – I’m not a Mac person, but Andrew Kramer just told me that for macs you need to be running thre latest Flash player, not under rosetta. I’m assuming it’s an intel mac thing, so it may not be the problem here.

I’ll have a new flash player and preloader courtesy of andrew in a little bit, and I want to test some of the settings for the flash video as well. In the meantime, sorry for the trouble. Hang in there.

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Aharon Rabinowitz
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http://www.allbetsareoff.com
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Creative Cow Master Series DVD
particleIllusion Fusion Volume 1
available @ http://www.pIllusionFusion.com

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

can ask if anyone is having the same problem with Andrew’s recent tutorials? It will help in the beta process here.

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Aharon Rabinowitz
aharon(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
http://www.allbetsareoff.com
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Creative Cow Master Series DVD
particleIllusion Fusion Volume 1
available @ http://www.pIllusionFusion.com

[Stefan Tapper]

I’m on windows here with the latest flash version(it already says adobe flash so I guess its the new one) and it works fine.

Anyway, I prefer mov’s because you can archive and review some settings and tweaks you don’t remember after a while. This way we have to download the tut every time we want to review a detail and have to stress the cow servers then.

Btw, as usual amazing work on the tutorial! I tried to produce some on myself for internal use and it’s so hard to find the right speed for explaining everything step by step without overloading the viewer with information.

Thanks
Stefan

[Jay Thompson]

Stafen wrote…
I prefer mov’s because you can archive and review some settings and tweaks you don’t remember after a while. This way we have to download the tut every time we want to review a detail and have to stress the cow servers then.

After you watch the file, this is where the computer saves it. Just copy and save else where…

Navigate to “C:\Documents and Settings\your-settings-name\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files” and look for “CC_Ribbon.fla” then you can copy this flash moive to where ever you like.

Jay Thompson
Thompson Visual Design & Storytelling
7 Marjean Ct.
Kirkwood, MO 63122