gnats, bugs and flies…?

[Barend Onneweer]

Not a complete walkthrough, but it’ll give you a good start – if you’re an advanced AE user…

https://prolost.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_prolost_archive.html

But any particle system should give you the tools you need.

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[Justin Productions]

I did a sample video recently where I made flies flying very fast in the atmosphere and it looked really realistic.

What I just did was just creating a 3D bug in Zaxwerks, animated its wings, precomped the video of the flying bug with an alpha. I could of done the animation of the bug flying around with Zaxwerks and to feel more confortable, just add a null (controler) to my 3D object to make the flying movements of my bug more realistic but I thought it was much easier to simply precomp my flying bug without mouvement keyframes (from itself).

What I did is that I just keyframed the mouvements, with big circle movements, and then changed, in the Keyframe Assistant, the keyframes to Easy In or Easy Out. Checked the motion blur, and that was about it!

So easy and so realistic, that’s what I call productive 🙂

Hope that helped.

Justin Productions
Tangerin01@hotmail.com
Adobe After Effects 6.0 Professional

[Betty Boop2]

Thanks to both of you! I’m not very hot with expressions so I think I’ll try Justin’s idea first.

Thanks again,

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

[Justin Productions]

If you want to see my video (wich is 579Ko, not big at all) just e-mail me. Or I could send you my project file.

Just suggesting 🙂

Justin Productions
Tangerin01@hotmail.com
Adobe After Effects 6.0 Professional

[Betty Boop2]

Like to see the project file, if you don’t mind.

jay(at)jtdesign.org

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