making streamers

[Kevin Camp]

you could use cc cylinder to wrap a skinny image into a spiral (it can only wrap it once, so it won’t be a curly curl).

to quickly test to see if this can work for you…

1. create a new comp (typical settings)
2. add a skinny solid (like 720×20) and rotate it diagonally, say 45 degrees
3. drag that comp into a new comp (same settings)
4. add cc cylinder to the nested comp layer and adjust the radius as need. if that seems like it could work for you, continue.
5. to animate the drop, go back the first comp and animate the postion of the solid to drop from off screen top to off screen bottom
6. go back to the second comp and animate the y rotation (in the cc cylinder properties) to rotate say 1 revolution over the same time that it takes to drop off screen.

if you still like it, you can rework that first comp to put in a custom streamer, and coninue to tweak settings in the cylinder properties (you can adjust lighting and shading options too)

you can also add falling confetti like pieces with a particle system like cc particle world (included in ae pro bundles) or particular (from trapcode.com).

for particle world you could start with settings like:
longevity: 5
producer: pos y: -0.4; radius x: 1; radius z: 1
Physics: animation: twirly; velocity: .1; gravity: .1; resistance: .5; extra: 5; extra angle: 3x
Particle: type: tripoly or quadpoly (textured poly if custom); rot speed: 720; init rot: 720; max opacity: 100

Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW