Please critique and advise on these two very short (6s) motion effects

[Thomas Imbrigiotta]

Not a bad start. Nice work. It does looks like you’ve got a little bit of overlap. If you’re seeing distortion at high speeds it could be a bunch of things. If you’re still in Motion (when the distorting occurs) make sure you create a RAM Preview (Command + R) before critiquing.

For the logo you may have been zoomed into your canvas when you set your initial letter positions. Click in the canvas window and then press Shift + Z. This will automatically fit your canvas in your window. You can also click in the canvas and type Command & + or Command & – to zoom in or out. I believe these shortcuts work throughout all FCP Studio software.

T.J. Imbrigiotta
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[Stephen Smith]

Roli,
Its looking good. I can’t watch frame by frame in Vimeo or I don’t know how. Anyways, at 00:09 you can see the blue square on top and you can see it is inside the cube a little. You will need to adjust it a little to make sure it lines up. You can put your camera in perspective mode and rotate around the cube with out effecting your active camera so you can see the cube better.

Also, I would make it rotate a little less.

Best of luck.

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[Roli Rivelino]

Cool, thanks guys, I think the overlapping with the squares is happening because I started adjusting them, they started off as the same size but I don’t think I got them totally square to begin with.

Any tips on how best to make sure they’re perfect squares and to know how big they are, therefore being able to push the Z axis of the anchor point exactly half way back?

I don’t like to use the built in one because you can’t seem to change the colour and so I end up getting confused as I’m building the cube.

As for the letters I thought I was zoomed out when I set them and I set them off the page, but I’ll try again and make sure I do RAM previews from now.

thanks again

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[Andy Neil]

You may want to check out my tutorial on building 3D objects in Motion.

3D Cityscape

In it, I use a trick that helps keep the shapes aligned by using a replicator for 4 of the 6 walls. Also, edge intersection in Motion has gotten better, but you can cheat a bit by adding a small amount of outline to your squares.

Also, when you create your 1st square initially, hold down the SHIFT key to constrain the shape to a perfect square. You can also go into the geometry section of the shape and adjust the control point numbers to even numbers (provided the position for the shape is 0,0 in the properties tab). That will allow you to use math to line up the remaining 2 squares for your cube. I go into that a bit in the tutorial.

Andy

[Roli Rivelino]

Excellent, that’s just what I needed, Cheers Andy.

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