Trying to create moving glowing spheres with trailers

[John Fishback]

Checkout this link to VideoCopilot’s free tutorials. You’ll get good ideas there.

John

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[Ben G unguren]

What’s not working with Echo? As long as you get your precomps right, Echo seems like the perfect filter for this look.

Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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[Miro Segura]

I think I’m struggling to make the spheres behave the way they look like on the video.

[Walter Soyka]

The trails don’t move — they pop up in place after the leader passes their position. In other words, you don’t want the trails to actually follow the animation of the leader.

I’d animate the leader, then use its animated position to drive the emitter in a particle system. The particles should have neither velocity from the emitter nor velocity from motion, and you their decay can be controlled with the particles’ opacity over life setting.

Walter Soyka
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[Miro Segura]

Thanks all for your suggestions, will try the Particle Emitter

Miro