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Turning something straight into a circle
I swear I have seen this done before…
I need to take an existing piece of footage that is “flat” and turn it in to a circle. Not mask it out into only showing a circle of the image. I need the end points of the horizon to loop around and touch each other. So that what is straight lines in the footage will become a circle. Is this possible?
Fuller context: I have a looping animation of an old-school 80s grid coming straight towards you. Its just generic stock I didn’t make it from scratch in After Effects. I need to “twist” this footage around so that the flat horizon grid becomes a tunnel. I could not find a free stock loop of a grid tunnel. If I need to make a grid from scratch in AE to make it into a tunnel I have seen those tutorials… I guess I would just need to know what the effect would be called to circularize it. Its not “circle” that just creates a vector circle… and I didn;t find any sort of “array” effect like I would think of in other types of software. I just at least need a starting point.
TL:DR – how do 3D grid tunnel?
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Tried that didn’t quite give me what I wanted. I did the CC Bend It to the animation and it wasn’t REALLY what I wanted but it will work in a pinch I guess.
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I thought maybe a picture reference would help…
So imagine this tunnel went back and down not to the right… I need that but animated, not necessarily that you’re flying through / down it, but that it is “flowing” towards you .
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I feel like this would be a dedicated 3D program solve. To me it sounds complicated even though the result looks “simple” and clean.
Best regards,
Kevin Camin
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Yeah if I had 3DS Max or something I could just fart out a funnel and run a camera through it. I’m working with what I have…
The cylinder idea earlier may work. I didn’t realize all the options at first that I could go inside the cylinder.
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Zack –
It looks like Transformer might help you out. Look at the paths capability:
https://aescripts.com/transformer/
Joe Bourke
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