Transition from several windows|Quads turning randomly

[John Cuevas]

You could build this in a 3D app, but unless you could create a very reasonable copy using After Effects. Using the card wipe, bevel and drop shadow, I made a pretty comparable effect. The trick to creating the “randomness” for the card wipe is by using a gradient layer to drive the effect. By creating a precomp that contained fractal noise with the contrast turned way up, you get the random card flipping. Card wipe has built in lighting to provide highlights…it doesn’t create shadows though. In the transition, they had the video stay in the back as it flipped, so I changed the ambient light to 1, to match the video.

Another thing I did was scale everything up to 102% to hide the bevel. If you scale down to 100% you would see it around the edge of the screen and you don’t want that.

Here’s a quick project I created, it should give you a nice starting point, if you have any questions let me know: 5284_cardwipetransitionfolder.zip

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[Vishesh Arora]

Leandro

You can also manually create the box shapes and animate as required.

See the tutorial

Vishesh Arora
3D and Motion Graphics Artist
Films Rajendra

Blog:
https://digieffects.wordpress.com

2011 3D Demo Reel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHPgIJU_BR8