tunnel built with circles!plss help!!

[Toby Fung]

Thx.I’ve tried to find it here as well.but they’re not exactly what I want.but thx anyway.
and I tried to apply the vector effect from the Gak Pak effects.and I managed to make this tunnel which is what I want to achieve.https://sweb.cityu.edu.hk/50694070/tunnel.mov
But still I want the tunnel to be circular rather than rectangular.Does anyone get any idea for changing it to a circular one?thx a lot!!

[Mike Clasby]

I think I would try setting up a series of rings in AE’s 3D space, then fly the camera through that. Dan has two ways, both would need adaptation, but with the right layer, the little diamonds in a ring of your sample (made in PhotoShop maybe), and maybe a four color gradient background, it might be what you want.

Here is the tut for a particle generator, sub in your layer for the ring layer in the comp named “Rings”, then adjust the parameters in the expression to get them to bunch close (or use bigger rings):

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/ebberts_dan/particle_gen.php

Also Dan has an expression solution for spreading layers out along a path, adjust the spacing to taste, get them moving then, precomp that and use time remapping on the precomp to freeze them in place once they are arranged like you want. Then fly the camera down the path. Again use your own custom ring layer. This may be easier to get the spread you want:

https://www.motionscript.com/mastering-expressions/follow-the-leader.html

These solutions are both a little round about, the second maybe a little easier, but both should work.