falling leaf/paper effect

[David Bogie]

Back in the olden days, long before Expressions, I used Sphere and Cylinder to do snowfalkes, leaves and feathers. A leaf wrapped around a Cylinder layer can be animated, with some care, to have truly convincing aerial ballistics. Doing it in 3D is more of a challenge.

Nowadays you could use Shatter and Foam, too, but those require precomping movies to become the particles. A bit of a challenge for noobies.

bogiesan

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[Darby Edelen]

I’m confused about why you need to mask anything. It sounds like this is a top down perspective of photos floating to rest on a flat plane? Where does the masking come in?

Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
Aptos, CA

[Atomicrabbit]

Sorry, I didn’t explain that properly, I want to use a mask because I don’t want the full picture showing. When the picture is first shown, it either zooms in/out or pans left/right/up/down (for a nicer effect then just a static photo). That is why I need a mask, I am using an alpha matte for the “mask”. With the shape layer as a parent to the photo layer.

[Atomicrabbit]

any suggestions??

*atomicrabbit

[Arul Mani]

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[Luke Luxor]

Why cant i get that second link? I keep clicking and it keeps saying “server not found”! I understand what that means and I noticed every time i go to click on it the url changes to something completely different! HELP ME!

[Salvatore Compagnone]

Hi there.. ate there any expressions that you know of that can be applied for a layer that falls from behind the camera to a flat surface and not from the top of the frame. I.e. I imagine the scale of the layer would be animated instead, and how to stop the expression after it gets to the size you want it.