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Prickly circle – howto?
Hi there,
I would like to animate a prickly, spikey circle. I attached a picture which shows the aesthetic I am trying to achieve. (grey background)
I already did some tests with Turbulent Displacement plus Radial Blur, yet it looks “wrong”. And it’s quite demanding, regarding performance. (example with black background attached)
Any ideas?
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5 Replies
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I found I achieved a similar result with a shape layer:
Make two circles. Top copy I set to 2 points larger than the bottom one.
The bottom one I added a Wiggle Paths. Size 76, Details 86, Smooth Points, 0 frequency (For example..).
And below all that Merge Paths in Add mode.
Lastly a Stroke…Was gonna see if you could add several Wiggle Paths to create smaller and larger details, but then After Effects stopped responding.. 🙃
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Thanks a ton!
Just added Simple Choker to smoothen it out.See attached clip for final result: it’s the circle on the very right.
PS: i can’t embed videoclips here, can I?
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So that ended up working for you in the end?
A completely different method, that Harry Frank did, (I believe) was just a line, displace it with greyscale gradients distoring the line with Displacement Maps and then using Polar Cordinates to make it a circle.
Probably would be a lot slower though.No idea if you can attach videos. Have not been active here for two ! years!
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Hi Anders,
yes I am happy with the outcome. Polar Coordinates is a powerful tool, but your approach is easier to handle.
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That looks like something you could get with the Roughen Edges effect set to spike.
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