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flying in the wind
Hi,
I see several helpful posts on how to create a ribbon eg. a. I see that this is not a 3d forum but does anyone know how to create a ribbon that actually has the tail “flapping” as if it was against the wind as it was moving along a path? Instead of a rather stiff looking ribbon. Do I have to do a cloth simulation?
Thanks.
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4 Replies
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[Dave LaRonde] “You’re almost always going to be better off doing such effects using the real thing.”
… with a cloth simulation. Wind dynamics, too. 🙂
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Hi,
There may be expressions for this, but, can’t help with those.
If your only using After Effects and no true 3D programs I think you are going to be stuck with distorting it. How you go about that depends on exactly how you want it to flap at the tail. Flattening and waving is a bit different than actually seeing part of the back.
If you have Zaxworks then go with that. If not then create a looping displacement precomp with something like Generate->Radio Waves and have it only affect the tail. The speed stroke and blur of this radio wave precomp will all greatly affect the outcome, so play with the sliders until you are happy.
Alternately use Distort->Wave Warp on a masked portion of the tail.
You can even go for the puppet tool, -it’s always fun- set a couple of pins in it and start puppeting =)
Hope that gets you waving -or flapping-,
Ben -
Hi,
After responding and the playing with this I got the best results with the puppet tool.
Apply puppet effect to the layer.
Set pins on the ribbon.
Twirl down the layer->effects->Puppet->Mesh1->Deform
Select the pin that you placed at the end of the ribbon and apply a basic wiggle expression to it.Best,
Ben -
Thank you all for the replies. Greatly appreciated. I’ll try the puppet tool and displacement methods.
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