Spiderman FX query!!!

[Steve Roberts]

It depends on how realistic you want it to look.

You’ll need a 3D app to do a realistic effect. They used Houdini ($$$):
https://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=169&Itemid=9

After Effects is not designed to do realistic visual effects like that.

Now if you want something a little more abstract, you could try Trapcode’s Particular, but it won’t look like a 3D string of webbing – it’ll look more like a string of light.
If you need the effect to work with a moving camera, you’ll need something like Syntheyes to match AE’s camera to the real camera.

As for a static web, you could grab a photo of one and composite it into the shot.

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

I’ve actually been thinking about the new puppet tool (AE CS3)and spidey web effects. I wonder if you could get something nice out of that…

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[Steve Roberts]

You mean to show the mesh, Aharon?

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

I mean to animate a web. If you make an image of the final web, you can have it scale out of the hand (anchor point at end connected to hand), but in the process use the puppet tool to deform it. I wouldn’t be surprised if you could use a wiggle expression on the puppet points position values to get a natural feel to the motion.

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[Daryl Booth]

Is the `puppet` effect anywhere on AE7(pro) I have not seen it?

Thanks for the help anyways guys.