Floating Feather Look

[Steve Roberts]

Try searching the COW for “float” or “leaf”.

[Mark]

Ther must be an expression to do this, but unfortunately I am very basic with expressions.

I would probably use the motion sketch command, along with the smoother, and then play around with the temporal interpolation to get the look I wanted.

You will probably want to animate the rotation properties in 3d to match the motion path.

Now add a light to add shading.

Mark

[David Bogie]

Hiya Mark!

I’ve done this many times using a cylinder effect applied to the leaf/price tag/envelope/feather. Nest it.

The motion path is easily created to emulate drifting or fluttering. Add turns and flips to the cylinder layer to coincide with the positional stops in the drift path or tie them in with an expression. Add a light to the main comp to simulate your primary camera lighting. you will want it for the interior shadows if the tag curls in on itself and maybe a glint.

I used Boris Cylinder because it has far cooler shading effects and much more control over the cylinder wrap than the CC version.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Mike Clasby]

bogiesan’s cylinder curl is a sweet idea. You might find this from aenhancers useful for the movement:

Creating a falling leaf effect

https://www.aenhancers.com/viewtopic.php?t=8

If you tie the parameters to sliders (highlight the 200 in yVelocity to a slider (Effects>Expression Controls>Slider control and name it yVelocity) then you can even keyframe changes in this cool set of expressions from Dan. Throw in a barrel roll, hey even price tags need that carnival ride expreience.

Note to self: This needs to be made into a preset.

[Mark]

David,

Great idea. I had tried this in the past using a page turn (it was for a falling photo), but the cylinder sounds way cooler.

Mark