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Making blocks with gravity in AE
Hi,
I am trying to achieve a certain look in AE and am not sure where to begin. I have footage of an actor walking (on greenscreen). I want to make the actor’s body look like it is composed of hundreds of squares or blocks. The squares can overlap. They should have their own gravity so that they rise and fall with the actor’s walking movement and all collapse into a pile. Is something like this possible in AE? Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks! -
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I wouldn’t even try something like this in After Effects. The look you describe would most likely be done in a 3D app like Maya or 3D Studio Max. Even then, that would be an extremely challenging project to build.
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well, (this is a longshot) but you could motion track the actor and then create several layers (the more blocks you want, the more layers you’ll need) of the actor and mask out each one as a block in different positions and then parent all the masks to a null that is parented to the tracker. And i believe that should make the blocks rise and fall with the actor as he walks, as for all the blocks collapsing, im not sure.
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effects->transitions->card dance will allow you to break your actor up into blockc, and scaling the crads will make them over lap. you can give the illusion of physics, by doing some keyframe work (some times you just have to do it the old fashioned way) or tracking will work as well.
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