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  • Rowan De geus

    March 15, 2018 at 8:41 am

    Hi Steve, thanks for your reply.

    I am looking for automated distribution, so Cloners+Effectors is out of the question since I’d have to manually distribute each ring. Also it slows down my system pretty fast (i7 4770, 16GB RAM). For Ae shapelayers: they kill my system from about 1000+ layers…

    I have to be able to animate the scale of every circle in the grid individually, hence I am using Trapcode Form with gradient maps…

    Could you elaborate a bit further on how you achieved this by even using millions?

    Thanks, greets!

  • Cassius Marques

    March 15, 2018 at 1:24 pm

    I’ll just throw some ideas around.

    Do you have to do it in AE? Because I’d do that in C4d with all the flexibility in the world…

    If you have to do it in AE…and I have no idea how you’ll want to animate it but, can’t you like create the shapes for lets say 5º-10º of the circle, pre-comp and duplicate/rotate the comp?

    Cassius Marques
    http://www.zapfilmes.com

  • Rowan De geus

    March 15, 2018 at 1:41 pm

    Hi Cassius,

    Not per se Ae, so if you know an automated way of distributing these circles radially in C4D I’m listening 🙂

  • Cassius Marques

    March 15, 2018 at 2:06 pm

    Sure, just like I said, you have all the flexibility to get as close as that image (or anything else you’d like). But it requires some tweaking and some understanding of the app.

    In 10mins I came up with this…

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    I can send you the source file if you want a headstart…

    Cassius Marques
    http://www.zapfilmes.com

  • Rowan De geus

    March 16, 2018 at 8:11 am

    That looks very good, I’d VERY MUCH like to know how to build that!

  • Cassius Marques

    March 16, 2018 at 2:33 pm
  • Rowan De geus

    March 20, 2018 at 3:23 pm

    Thanks Cassius! This looks really simple, combining this afterwards with Ae should be a breeze ☺

    Cheers to you

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