Motion 5 Tutorial : Bicycle chain assembly

[Tim Jones]

Hi Simon,

Thanks for sharing these! I look forward to your other work.

Tim
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[Don Eitner]

This… is… awesome! I had no idea about the Indent filter. I’ve been layering up and individually coloring shapes by hand like a chump to fake a 3D/embossed look.

How did you come up with the numbers for this tutorial? Lots of trial and error or pencil and paper math?

[Simon Ubsdell]

[Don Eitner] “This… is… awesome! I had no idea about the Indent filter. I’ve been layering up and individually coloring shapes by hand like a chump to fake a 3D/embossed look.

How did you come up with the numbers for this tutorial? Lots of trial and error or pencil and paper math?”

Thanks, Don – glad it was useful!

The indent filter is amazingly powerful and versatile – don’t forget to try the Height Map option which is great for creating faux-3D textures (using image maps of your choice):

The filter works like a true 3D bump/relief map so the light interacts with it in a plausible fashion – great if you animate your lights.

As for the numbers, I have so say I cheated a bit and used a rather handy internet resource for bike chain/ gear ratio calculations, which cut down on the pencil and paper quite a bit:

https://www.bikecalc.com/gear_ratios

Simon Ubsdell
http://www.tokyo-uk.com

[Simon Ubsdell]

[Tim Jones] “Thanks for sharing these! I look forward to your other work.”

Thanks very much, Tim.

If you haven’t caught them, you can find some of my other Motion tutorials here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeZvvhzFi_ZxWbzZ5bhJ45QWzPHQ3Y5qy

All the best,

Simon

Simon Ubsdell
http://www.tokyo-uk.com

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