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  • Particles or layers VFX shot

    Posted by William Saviola on September 30, 2018 at 6:41 pm

    I have 5 people that stand behind a woman holding a phone facing and looking into the camera.

    The 5 people need to break up into small particles layers and move into the phone screen that the women is holding in front of them.

    Everyone has been roto’d and they are there own layer.

    I can use Trapcode Particular/ Form but the problem is moving them on a path into the phone. I need to break each person up in pieces like data.

    Particular only lets you follow a path if you emit from a ‘Point’ and not a ‘Layer which I would need.

    Has anyone got any ideas? Worse case would be to mask out small boxes/layers for each person and animate them like that.

    Thank you

    Blaise Douros replied 7 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Greg Gesch

    September 30, 2018 at 11:15 pm

    Hi, have you thought about using the Bezier Warp effect and scaling (and/or some of the other Distort effects)?

  • Blaise Douros

    October 1, 2018 at 4:30 pm

    Use Scatterize to break them into particles, and keyframe a Warp effect to animate them funneling into the phone.

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