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  • Pouring slime!

    Posted by Per Rönnecke on January 20, 2007 at 10:24 pm

    Hi! I’m cutting a video about slime, you know that green, slimy substance that sometimes have been very popular pouring over each other.

    I would like to create a curtain with slime pouring from top to bottom of the screen filling it with green.

    I’m an editor and not so used to work with Motion and AE. I made a slimy shape in Motion and then tried to animate the shape. That didn’t work!

    Can I do that kind of thing in Motion or do I have to hire an animator?

    Thanks!

    /Per

    Malcolm Thorpe replied 19 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Steve Cardwell

    January 22, 2007 at 8:56 pm

    you should be able to do this quite easily,

    1. Use the bezier tool to draw your shape in the first frame.

    2. Click the record button.

    3. Move the playhead to the end frame and drag the bezier points to their new position.

    4. Click records button (to deactivate it).

    5. Play it back and tweak as necessary.

    Hope this helps.

    Steve

  • Per Rönnecke

    January 23, 2007 at 10:51 pm

    Thanks, Steve!

    I didn’t think of the record function. It worked fine.

    Thanks again!

    /Per

  • Malcolm Thorpe

    February 2, 2007 at 6:57 pm

    Excellent, simple effect. Is there any way to give the shape a 3d effect so that it has depth?

  • Malcolm Thorpe

    February 2, 2007 at 7:21 pm

    OK, I found out my own answer. add a filter to the shape (aura) and turn the brightness rather high and keep the radiuses…radii pretty close to gether in value.

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