Revealing curtains

[Mike Clasby]

Here’s a couple of ways that are quick and not bad looking, methinks.

CC Split (in Distort), set the Point A and B vertically and reveal away, this gives a gap like a vertical eye opening, but you can drop the lower Point B way down and get more of a conventional curtain opening.

I think the nicest looking is to dup the curtain layer, mask off a left and a right side, then apply CC Bender to one side (also in Distort), Style Boxer (although you might like others better), reverse the positions of the Top and Base parameters, now negative Amounts pull the curtain on the right open, like someone peeking from behind.

Break a leg.

[Xtothed]

thank you very much….that is magic…

[Mike Clasby]

Glad it worked for you. Yeah, Bender can do some amazing things to stills or videos, Marylin can really make the hips in a photo do the samba especially when tied to audio keyframes. Oops, I guess I watched too much Dancing with the Stars last night.

[Tsubiaddict]

is it possible to post your project, I’d like to see how its turned out sounds very interesting. I wouldn’t know the first place to start.
But great work, its got me thinking.

T

[Mike Clasby]

Well, hope you’re not disappointed, but here’s the Curtain being open (5 MB):

https://media.putfile.com/Bender-Curtain

The last 1 sec is a Screen Capture of the AE screen with everthing showing for the curtain. The revealed Bigfoot doing a booty-shake is from another project and he gets the shake from Bender (but with Style: Marlyn), the amount for Bigfoot’s Bender was tied to Audiokeyframes (of the music)via an expression (Alt Click the Amount Stopwatch and pickwhip to one of the Audio keyframes sliders)If you can’t read it, for the Curtain, it’s Bender>Style: Boxer.

To get audio keyframes in AE, select the sound layer, Animation>Keyframe Assistant>Convert Audio to keyframes. Trapcode Soundkeys makes a similar effect but it’s much more sophisticated.

This putfile will be in your Temporary Internet Files, click Size to sort by size, it’s an MOV (4,871 KB) near the top, then you can copy/paste it somewhere to play on your computer, you might need to View>Double Size in Quicktime to see the settings for Bender and Fractal Noise.

[Mike Clasby]

In case that’s too hard to decipher, here’s an aep for the curtain:

https://www.nitroshare.com/v/9113749/1158217367829.aep.html

I apologize for a lack of description, and the file not being named well, first time I’ve used that service.

And a tut from Adobe for audiokeyframes to drive an effect is here:

https://studio.adobe.com/us/tips/tip.jsp?p=1&id=396&xml=aft6audio

Like I said I used Audiokeyframes to drive the Amount of Bender to do the Bigfoot Booty-shake.

[Criis Daw]

I have had some great sucsess opening curtains using mesh warp….. (only need a few points)
but i shall investigate your methods…

c