how to ? https://media2.mk12.com/v5_qt_html/2003/wwft_trisect.html

[Steve Roberts]

Unless I’m wrong, doesn’t Cinema4D offer cameras with non-perspective projection? That sort of camera can render an object with a “flat” front and “angled” sides.

If that’s not an option, I could picture using an animated mask to reveal two graphics: the “line” and the “shadow”.

Anybody else?
Steve

[Stewart Boyles]

vector paint?

[Joshua Ferg]

I emailed the design team at MK12 a while back to ask them what apps htey were using because their work is sick its so brilliant – probobly the best along with the team at Belief. All that from a shop based out of Kansas City?!!!

Anyway, the combine After Effects and the 3-D work in Maya.

Sorry if this is a noob question, but couldnt the obects be beveled in Illustrator as 2-D and brought into AE, with animated masks?

Best,
Josh

[Kieran]

I believe that this is actually done entirely in AE, or at least in can be, with the echo . Igor, a poster at mograph.net, wrote a tutorial for a similar effect done in the ultraloveninja piece:

https://www.happygraphics.net/goodies/ninjalove%20tutorial/tut1.html

hope that helps,
kieran

[Chris Smith]

Very interesting tut. However, I don’t see a reason why echo is involved. It seems like quite a strange work-around. Why not just use the same pasted path as a stroke path or write on path with a wide brush for the reveal. If you want squared ends then make a square mask that follows the tip with the stroke behind it instead of an echo effect.

But what I took away from this is that the answer to the original question is a few layers of drop shadow with hard edges, different color and 100% opacity.

If you look at the Mk12 animation frame-by-frame, you will see the thickness of their drop shadow change everyonce in a while as an animation effect. Which makes me think they animated the drop shadow offset or animated the multiple shadow layers on and off.

Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com

[Kieran]

I was looking around on the author’s site after I posted that and he recommends using write on too (it’s at least two years since he wrote the tut). It’s certainly a lot more efficient that way.

[Thehardmenpath]

I have watched the video carefuly and I believe this has been done that way:
After designing the main graphic (just the yellow line) it was separated in different objects for each line or group of lines and uncovered with masks. I can see it in some curves where the yellow appears as uncovered by a line, not a vector paint progress. Check out the lowest yellow line in the r of poetry, for example. Separating it into layers allow to change colors and moving words as they do, and blik.

All this got then probably precomposed and the effect of drop shadow was added. By the way, if you want to add several drop shadows as they did, I recomend to start with a distance of one and increase it exponentially after that, starting with 2 in the second effect, 2,4,8,16.

I presume they did something BEFORE that, they put another drop shadow with the same properties but in the opposite direction to end covering the yellow part with a full stroke line. I think
the best way to keep everything in control is with expressions, so you only have to animate the values at the first effect.

Finally, check out a little mistake (or is it?) there: Parts that are not onscreen don’t project shadows, like the line that goes over the “h” of “they” at the end. Just like the drop shadow effect does.

[Spidex]

makes a lot of sense. i got the replies earlier from mograph.
lotsa work.
thanks again chris.
U know of any shop in texas that might need people ? I hate life in Los Angeles and wish to move out.

[Chris Smith]

Yeah, “Post Op” here in Dallas opened a few new mograph rooms and I assume they need so more folks. Send them a reel.

http://www.postop.com

Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com

[Chris Smith]

sorry gave you the wrong url. use this one:

https://post-op.com/

Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com