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How do I simulate the motion of a stack of books or objects being dropped on one another? gravity..
Its typography, and I have 10 words stacked horizontally that I want to fall in front the top of the frame and react as if each of the words were a book, and I dropped that stack of books onto the ground, like gravity. Or something like a stack of 2×4 wood, or maybe bricks.
I want there to be an appropriate gravity on the downfall, and then I want a little bit of a bounce when they hit the ground like you’d get when you dropped anything onto the ground. And I would like the objects to react to one another (hopefully), in the same way books would react to one another as the first one hits the ground, 2nd on hits the first, 3rd hits the second etc.
I’m looking at tutorials on expressions, but I know little about them. This sounds pretty complicated. Is it?
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Oh boy, do I have a solution for you: Newton! [LINK]
– The Great Szalam
(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.
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Michael already gave you the answer – Newton is great at this stuff.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Newton looks pretty clever – though this can be done easily with expressions.
Here are a few tutorials:
https://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2007/08/gravity-in-after-effects/
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/toula_jesse/Gravity-in-After-Effects/video-tutorial
Here’s an expression you can cut/paste:
https://www.motion-graphics-exchange.com/after-effects/Better-Bouncing/4d620fac97e8e
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Wow, Newton looks absolutely amazing. I’ll try to pitch this one and hope for the best. I saw they have teacher and student prices so I emailed about whether they have a non-profit discount like adobe does. we’ll see.
Also, sweet idea about dropping actual books and frame matching. I have a feeling that this is more in our budget
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