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How to unwrap a sphere?
I am trying to do an effect where I am unwrapping a logo and text from a billiard ball in my animation. I’ve tried using both Spherize and CC Spheres, which does a nice job of wrapping the logo around a shere shape, but I can’t figure out how to animate an un wrap from the sphere into the 2D flat ainimation. Any Suggestions?
(Im using 6.5 pro)
Thanks
Patrick -
7 Replies
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Hi,
Bad news is: You can’t do it with those plugins.
The closest I think you can get is with a “CC Bulge” Effect, combined with a circular mask.
Animate the bulge down from 1 to 0 while you interpolate the mask from circle to the full layer.Unfortunately. Bulge is not a true Spherize distortion, but it might come close enough for your project.
(To my taste the Spherize-filter doesn’t actually look like a sphere either, though CC Sphere nails it)for a true unwrapping effect, you’ll need a 3d program. I know Cinema 4D can do it easily.
As for 3rd party plugins:
I’m not sure if this effect can be accomplished with 3d invigorator.
But Forge.net’s Freeform might do the trick. -
Off the top of my head, would optics compensation work on that?
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Check out the Conoa plugins. I believe their true 3D spere will unwrap
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Indeed it does,
Conoa’s homepage seems to be offline, but you can get to the details via here:
https://www.conoa.com/products.html
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Thanks all for the suggestions. The conora plugin seems exatcly what I need, but don’t have the budget for it right now. Ended up using FishEye from Petes Plugins, as a coprimise.
Patrick
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I know this is a bit late, but I was looking for a solution and I found this plugin. It’s paid ofc, but atleast we have some direct solution now.
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That’s a neat plugin.
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