Flag Wave

[Justin Productions]

Here’s a very good tut’ from Kathlyn:

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/lindeboom_kathlyn/flag_freeform/index.html

Check it out.

Justin Productions
Tangerin01@hotmail.com
Adobe After Effects 6.5 Professional

[Mike Clasby]

If you don’t want to buy a 3rd party plug-in, you can us Wave Warp.

Just drop your Flag image into a comp that bigger than the Flag. You need that black space around the flag for Wave warp to look right.

Drag that comp into your final comp (you can’t just Precompose because you need that black space)and apply Wave warp.

For a test, my setting were:

Wave Type: Sine
Wave Height: 12
Wave Width: 90
Direction: 60 degrees
Pinning; Left Edge

You might want to animate some of these parameters over time to give it a little variation, like gusts of wind.

[Steve Morris]

I used Aharon’s displacement map tutorials to create a waving flag earlier this week. The displacement layer gets kind of tricky when you try to animate it. It does not work the way you think it should. You will need to watch 2 of the 3 displacement tutorials to figure it out.

Created a displacement map in Photoshop. Make undulating vertical lines. Make sure to use a very soft brush. Then blur the layer. Then follow his tutorials. Then apply a second copy of the displacement map on top of the flag to give it the appearance of shadows. Make sure to reduce the opacity of this layer.

[Tyler Paul]

I made an animated flag using particular. The techinique is a little complicated to explain at the moment but it looked pretty decent. I’ll post a quick animation and the project file when I get off of work. All you’ll have to do is throw your flag image into a comp. There’s a control set up for the windspeed. Greater wind speed causes more flapping. And it’s entirely 3D.

[Jay Thompson]

For my money the 3rd party plug-in called “Flag” (for $99)from Zaxwerks is the way to go. I’ve used it tons and with great results.

-jay

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