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Nailgun Adidas
Hey guys,
First of all, because I’m french, I don’t know what “nailgun” means. I know the word because it’s the name of the clip I found here. On trapcode.com too, of course.
The nailgun adidas ad.
I searched in the COW Archives but no one, in the 3 little posts, explained exactly what I wanted. I would like to know how they did the zooming in the break dancer at the end. I found no tutorial on trapcode.com about this one. Did they duplicated the breakdancer and played with Z Scale?
Anyone, help? Chris? 😛
Thx a lot for your time.
Justin Productions
Ta********@*****il.com
Adobe After Effects 6.0 Professional -
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I would say that they duplicated it a few times and than they zoomed in and put an echo on it.
That’s the way I would do it.
And PS I’m german and I gues nailgun is a gun wihich shoots with nails.
The things you own end up owning you.
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Yeah, that’s what I thought too.
Thank’s a lot, I’ll try that.
Other suggestions? 🙂
Justin Productions
Tangerin01@hotmail.com
Adobe After Effects 6.0 Professional -
Nailgun is the effects house that produced that animation.
If you watch the end frame by frame, the silhouetted dancer actually travels backwards on Z into the negative space created by his absence in the top layer. Then, the repeated layers all have the same silhouette cut out of them.
As stated above, echo would probably be an easy way to mimic this, but you know what they say, “when you set out to imitate, you’ve already admitted defeat.”
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A “nailgun” is an air-compressor powered hand tool for people who suck with hammers. They are fast, powerful effective and extremely efficint at doing their task…like Nailgun Post, the people who made the Adidas spot.
That effect looks as though it could be done with multiple illustrator layers zooming through 3D z-space or it could be an “echo” effect with some scripting variables. I’m not familiar with the creation of that effect as I’ve never had to mimic it personally, but it doesn’t really look all that complex.
Michael Munkittrick
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