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Flying 3D Coins!
hello all, I’m working at an advertising company and I’m afraid I might have promised a little too much, what effect, or plug in would I need to make a coin hitting a pile of coins (could be a pic) have a bunch of coins fly off and into another pile. I thought Particular could do it but mapping an image onto a coin proved a lot more difficult than I thought it would be. Basic Shatter kind of does what I need it too, but I can’t get the custom shatter map to shrink down, kind of stumped on what to do here, any suggestions?
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No real idea what you want to do since AE cannot create 3d extruded coins. I’ve never used particular but there’s a Trapcode forum here on the cow, isn’t there? Maybe someone there can help.
Shatter can easily extrude circles into 3d space on a 2d layer (and place a nice ridged edge on them) but you can’t stack them up.
Card Dance can do wonderful things into 3D (on a 2D layer) but can’t extrude the coins and Card Dance’s ballistics are stylized, they’re not realistic.I’d suggest you start trying to find a highly skilled 3D animator in your market area and expect to pay her handsomely for rescuing your project against a deadline she doesn’t own.
bogiesan
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If you have Illustrator you could make an extruded 3D coin there and possibly several layers of the same thing to make a composition to animate in AE. Your coins though in this manner would not animate like 3D objects. You would just be making a stack of images of coins in various positions and animating the images from the stack.
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well, what I ended up doing, and looks pretty interesting I might add, was create a custom shatter map and had it blow out in a certain direction, which fakes 3D coins really well, too bad the pieces in shatter can’t land on something. Thanks for the help though 🙂
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