growing 2d flowers / natural looking growing masks (example given)

[Jayse]

This is something I do a lot.

It typtically involves lots of masks (brought in from AI or PS) that I do one of three things with:

1. Animate their expansion (be careful that you’re not using OpenGL preview with this – but adaptive – it’s buggy) I animate it from a negative value back up to it’s default.

2. Animate the points on the mask it self.

3. Animate a new mask on top set to intersect in order to get the reveal on (this is the quickest way – but less elegant)

I wrote tutorials for it in Rich Harrington’s new books AE @ Work and Broadcast Design on the Spot and some examples at http://www.xeler8r.com

hth!

// jayse

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[Chris Smith]

Great info Jayse. BTW, Most of what I know in AE I learned from your training discs. Great stuff.

Chris Smith
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[Jayse]

Hey thanks Chris – always good to hear. 🙂

And – after lots of talks with Kathlyn here – looks like I might do a little video tutorial fer da Cow on a few ‘growing’ variations. If people would actually watch it. 😛 – So look for it soon if you’re interested.

Cheers,

// jayse

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[Chris Smith]

I think a video tutorial would be brilliant. I know this question gets asked quite frequently (meaning “how does this flowers/letters/logos reveal?”).

Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com