How to make a coin spin in the air?

[Michael Hancock]

Probably your best bet would be to use Zaxwerks Invigorator or a 3D program. You can do it with regular 2D layers, but you’ll look depth when it hits the 90 degree mark. Of course, depending on how fast the coin spins, some motion blur could probably mask it, but you wanted it in slow motion. It would be easy in Invigorator. You can download a free 30 day trial from http://www.zaxwerks.com

Michael.

[Deadittex]

if you wanna compansate for the thiness of the coin in after effects with out having to play with true 3D (Laziness) The you can duplicate teh layer like 15-25 times layer each layer a pixel awayfrom each other In Z space then Null them togethere … that gives an illusion of depth…

‘The wheel weaves’

[John Cuevas]

If you don’t have Zaxwerks you could create this effect with Shatter. And a front and back picture of a penny& texture for the side.

Create a composition, add solid, mask it to a cirle. Load in your front and back pictures of the penny. Size them so they are the exact same size as the masked cirle. Take this comp and duplicate twice. In each comp turn on 1 layer, ie..circle solid, front, back.

Create a new comp and all 3 comps & penny side texture. Create new camera, create null. Make null 3d and parent the camera to the null.

Create a solid and apply shatter. Under shape and pattern, choose “custom” For your custom layer choose the “Circle Solid” comp.

Twirl down the “Textures” and for front, side back, choose the appropriate graphics or comps.

Change camera setup to comp camera. Now just animate x & y & z of your null to flip the penny.

[John Cuevas]

Sorry, you need to rotate the null, to rotate the coin. Change Z position of camera to make it look like it’s moving closer or farther away.

[Mike Clasby]

This from Serge Hamad:

Name: Serge
Date: Jan 18, 2006 at 3:58:30 pm
Subject: Re: coin toss

Hi,

Try this:
https://www.nyc-visual.com/3D_coin.zip

Thread:
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=860548

Hope it helps.

Salut.
Serge