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Creating a logo out of falling coins
I need to create a logo for a company I’m starting called “silver”. I would like to have a simple black background and have silver coins rain down from above and form the individual letters S-I-L-V-E-R. the only thing I want moving after that is the “dot” of the “i” -which should fall last and spin(maybey a nice glow behind it)
Can anyone tell me in plain english how to do this or is there a tutorial?PS
I’m not that experienced with AE so please explain like you are talking to a five year old! 🙂 -
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The way I’d do this is in reverse using shatter. Do the dot above the ‘i’ manually and have shatter break apart the you words and set gravity to be above.
Then bring that whole composition into another one and use time remapping or speed set to -100% to have it play backwards. then keyframe the dot in.
Hope the helps
Graham
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I don’t know if you are wanting to use real coins or to generate them in a computer. What I would do is create a small set with a flat (as in not glossy) black background (ie: some black felt or fabric). With this “set” well lit, I would then drop many real coins onto the background, one at a time (ie: drop one coin, let it sit, pick up the coin, repeat).
Then in after effects, I would bring in the footage, and apply a luma key to key out the darker (the black bg), so that I could cut out any grain if there was any in the video footage, making it pure black. I would composite all of those coins on top of eachother, positioning them so that they would fall where I wanted them (looking at the end of each piece of footage to see where they will end up) in order to get it to spell out the word “silver.”
You could probably film the coin just 10 times or so, and that would be enough variation that no one would notice if you repeat the same drop a few of times.
This is the way I would do it. I am sure some people could come up with a faster way to CG it, but I personally prefer the look of real things vs. computer generated things wherever possible. If it is something like a logo, it is going to be used a lot, so you want to make it worth your while.
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