Flattening CC Cylender?

[Mylenium]

Not with CC Cylinder. The simple solution would to use Conoa 3D which offers control over the “wrap” behavior. Other than that you can try to match the curvature with displacement effects such as lens compensation and then flatten out your logo by animating the strength of the effect. you may need to add some cross-dissolve to avoid pixels jumping as the alignment will never be 100% perfect and of xcourse it’s a bit more time-consuming.

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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

The CC perspective plugins can’t unfurl themselves. You’ll need Boris Continuum’s set to do this.

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[Rhett Robinson]

You may be able to substitute the logo comp with a “warp” horizontal bulge at that transition point (you’ll have to mess with the scale (disproportionate) of the layer, and the bulge amount as well, and go from like a bulge of 50 to 0.

Another “patch” idea might work, but that’s the first one I played with.

[Chris Smith]

Long shot, but maybe keyframe the cylinder radius extremely large over a few keyframes while keyframing down the distance or size to compensate. I’m not in front of it so I don’t remember the parameters off hand.

[Majorasshole]

Take Chris’ suggestion and crossfade it with the actual logo in place. You would be surprised how crossfading can look like interpolation if done correctly. Especially if it’s a quick fade and you get the positions close.

[Jonathan Alexander]

Mylenium,

What is this Conoa 3D you speak of? I tried looking it up, but not sure what it is. Is it a plugin? Thanks!

–Jonathan

[Ryan Hill]

Applying Grow Bounds before the cylinder will make it sort of unfurl, though it will never be completely flat.

I haven’t done the math, but to make it look like it’s unfurling at a constant speed, I think you’ll need exponential growth on the Grow Bounds.