Looking for Plugin effect: multi image/text layers that fly from to infinity

[Abie Silva]

It’s not clear what software you want to create this effect in; assuming you want to use After Effects, I believe you may be able to adjust the parameters for one or more of Digital Anarchy’s 3D Assistants plugins to create the effect you want. The link’s below…

https://www.digitalanarchy.com/3Dassist/distributes.html

[Abie Silva]

Here’s the link to the specific plugin that I meant to tell you about before. Man! I wish we could edit posts! The should be able to create the effect you mentioned.

https://www.digitalanarchy.com/3Dassist/dplanar.html

[David Delouchery]

Thanks Abie,

This looks like it will do the trick. I realize now that the layers are placed on different planes on the Z axis and then the camera flies through towards each plane. If this is the tool that they are using to create that effect that I have seen in various commercials and promo reels then great! I still feel though that there must be a easier specific plug in that achieves this effect but at least this one should make the task WAY easier. It seems though that Red Giant has bought up the plugins from Digital Anarchy but they are not ready yet for purchase. I wasn’t specific about which program I wanted to use because I wanted the plugin regardless of what program I needed to manipulate it in. I assumed that After Effects would be the defacto program anyway. I appreciate your help.

[Nel Santiago]

That was a good tip Abie. David I gotta shamefully admit, a long time ago I had set up an AE project with a null object and some place holder layers (5 of ’em) and have been using that same rig over and over and over. Not the fastest, but it worked. Abie’s suggestion of the DA plug-ins is one I’ll check out next time I have to do this. Good call.
-N

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[David Delouchery]

Thanks Nel for your comment. I just poured over your portfolio. My question is when do you sleep? I was accused of the same thing this morning when I sent off some Photoshopped still proofs to a client at 2:30 this morning. People as busy as you seem to be shouldn’t be filling their spare time up helping out grunt drones like me but I do appreciate it. I did explore the whole null object concept before I posted but my AE skills have dulled over the past 5 yrs and the whole 3D camera motion path thing is not intuitive for me yet. I’m sure I could achieve it this way but time/budget is a luxury I don’t have for such desires. Having seen this effect so often in the past couple of years (which I still haven’t described properly or found a suitable name for it yet) I have to believe that it has to be a commercially designed plug in. Maybe it’s the Planar Distribution Assistant. I won’t know till I try it. The samples shown do not highlight the affect that is in style now. I just remembered an example. At 51 seconds into 4Ward’s demo reel they have treated the text in the fashion I’m talking about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vTwxJ7dQIY

Anyways thanks again Nel.

Dave

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[Nel Santiago]

Sure thing man,
I’ll keep an eye out on this thread, in case any one pops in with a plug and play solution.

That’s one of the pains of working in News, never really have the time to figure out the right way of doing things, just figure out one way and do it like that until we run across a better solution! ha.

As for sleep? I sleep. But I also get up way early and try to knock out stuff like the blog and other updates before I head off to work. I work ahead. It’s hard but it’s important to me. Gotta give credit where credit is due though, I get a lot of help from my wife on researching stuff on other design ventures, she’s a producer and does a damn good job at it. But yes, it’s a lot of work.

I’ve asked my fair amount of questions, some that never get answers, so if I have time while I’m shuffling data, or rendering fx why not pop my head in and try to help out? Designers seem to keep their “secrets” and I’ve always felt that’s a nasty way of operating. Share what you know, and others will share their knowledge with you. IMO It all balances out.

-N

Site:ForbiddenSky

Blog:TVNewsBlog

LinkedIn:Profile

[David Delouchery]

N,
You’re one of the good ones!
D.

[Ken Latman]

Andrew Kramer has a tutorial where he is walking through a very similar effect.
Check out videoCopilot.net and the colorful universe tutorial.
This seems pretty similar.