Rubik’s Cube

[Heather Memmel]

Hello fellow RIT alum 🙂 The clip looks good, the next thing to try might be a version that is non-transparent/floating blocks but to make it black in between like a real rubik’s.

Good work!

[David Bogie]

I am in awe. Very cool 3D work. I can’t do that.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Ross Gerbasi]

As another RIT alum I had to chime in. Looks nice. Would be cool to see it filled in like a real rubik’s cube, but I am sure thats gonna be even more hell. 🙂

[Aharon Charnov]

bogiesan:

Yes you can!!! I did it in a very, very brute-force kinda way. Various people posted more elegant scripted versions but basically I created photoshop squares, prearnaged them in PS for each layer, imported all layers as a composition. I created null buffers and parented them to buffers according to color.

I set them all to 3D layers and then re-parented appropriate squares to one of three buffers. These would then rotate. After each rotations, I dupliacted the comp and killed the keys keepoing the new positions. I reparented for the orientation that the new comp would work along (vertical vs. horizontal) and re-oriented.

Repeat till yer done!

I then lined all the comps up in a final precomp and I was done.

You CAN do it.

Good luck

ACC

[Aharon Charnov]

Ross, Honion!

What year were you guys? Thaks for the posts. Here’s the weird thing. It never occured to me to do the cube filled in. I deliberatley wanted to see through it b/c I thought it looked cool. I’m kinda busy now since I teach at RIT (Yeah, I never left…) but very well and so be it: the next version I do will be totaly filled in.

Thanks for the suggestions I hope I figure out how to pull it off.

Best

Aharon Charnov