Logo that wraps around a person..using AE CS3?

[Ron Lindeboom]

This kind of thing is done using 3D applications, not After Effects. You may be able to use mesh warps and a few other tricks — to a point — but I sure wouldn’t want to try and tackle the problem that way.

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Ron Lindeboom

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[Scott Novasic]

I agree with Ron, your best shot in ae is with a mesh, or I would use a bezier warp and have both layers in 3d space. You may or may not have to use some layering tricks and or a mask to make it work.

3d is best if you have the skills.

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[Tom Scott]

Although best results would come out of a 3D program, it can be done in AE.
See if you can modify this tutorial for your needs.

[Gary Degennaro]

Thanks for the feedback everyone…

Tom, Im going to give that tutorial a shot and Ill let everyone know how it turns out.

Gary

[Peter Mcauley]

Hi Gary,

If you use Boris RED 4 as a plug-in inside of AE CS3 then you can place the person on a plane, place the logo on a cylinder and place the plane and the cylinder into a 3D container. Then you can rotate the cylinder and the logo will wrap around the person just as you wanted it to.

You can download the Boris RED 4 trial version and use it for free without watermark for two weeks. And you can download it here: http://www.borisfx.com/downloads

I hope this helps.

Peter.

[Chris Wright]

another method is use monet to roto mask the actor from the background, then you are free to do w/e you want with effects like cylinder effect, then when you add person again, they will automatically overlay the effect perfectly.

[Ron Lindeboom]

That’s what I get for reading these posts so fast! ;o)

I thought the effect was not just a simple clean cylinder wrap but a more uneven map/appliqué to the guy’s body/midriff — hence the 3D app or mesh warp suggestion.

One of these days I’ll actually slow down.

:o)

Thanks for popping in, Peter. Nice to see you found this forum.

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

Remember: Burt Bacharach lied. What the world really needs now is an undo button.

[Peter Mcauley]

Heheh … that exact same thing happens to me too. 🙂

Yeah, I discovered this forum just by accident through the larger items of interest that you have as a sidebar on the main forums page.

Glad I could be of help.

Cheers,

Peter.

[Ken Latman]

You might be able to get the effect using some techniques found in Photoshop for wraping objects with sort of a displacement map. If you can isolate the object you probably use the same trick you would in Photoshop and have your text run over the displacement map.

[Scott Roberts]

I recall seeing a tutorial a few years back that used expressions to do this type of effect. I think it demonstrated swirling a string of text around an object. Sorry, can’t recall where I saw it, but I believe expressions were used extensively. Maybe Computer Arts magazine? hmmmm

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