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ideas for a glue stream effect?
Hi,
I’m new to this board and have sort of a strange question. I’m using AE 6.5 and I’m working on a project that has characters in it that are papercut style animation using illustrator files. (think: southpark look)Anyway, In the particular scene that I’m working on now, I have a woman sitting at a table holding her arm up with a glue bottle in her hand, gluing a piece of paper to a book. My question is, how do I get a stream of “glue” coming out of the bottle and onto the book? usually I would use a mask but I’m working in 3D and so that won’t work. I also thought maybe I could paint the glue coming down out of the bottle, but I can’t seem to get that to work either, and it would be hard to track it coming out of the bottle as she moves it around. My other thought is maybe I could use the particle playground to make a stream of tight knit white particles come out of the glue bottle… but anyway I want to see if you guys could come up with any other ideas. And another note: she moves her arm up as she glues, so the bottle won’t be stationary. I’m not totally adept at this program, so hope someone can help!
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If you have them, try CC Glue Gun — also might take a look at CC Mr. Mercury…
Also a simple 2-D version could be achieved with Write-on
You’ll have to motion track the layer to her hand once you get it pouring right.
PS — Trapcode’s Particular is great to have the flow of the glue be affected by the motion of the emitter (i.e. her hand) once you motion track it. and you can make a liquidy emission with it. (I used Particular to make blood squirt out after a decapitation) motion tracked it to the neck and it had great physics qualities…
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Thanks! I’ve never used the cc effects but I got them today, so I’ll try them out.
I’ve only ever used motion tracking on video, so this will be new for me to do it on 2d images. Trapcode particular sounds pretty cool…Thankyou for the ideas, I’ll check them out!
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