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Urgent Fibre Optics Help Please.
Hello,
Using any Tinderbox or Trapcode plugin, or just basic After Effects Pro tools. Can someone help me do animation of the ‘fibre optics’ shooting up in the air?
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They are a white ‘bud’ with a blue transparent trail coming off them as they shoot from off the bottom of the screen to the top…
I am sure Particular is the way to go; any ideas, tutorials or ae files that could help me?
Many thanks!
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Can some please help?
I am wanting to create similar ‘fibre optics’ to the attached video…https://video.tinypic.com/player.php?v=2ufeu6x
What do you think?
Thanks
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Depending on how natural you want the look you can either work with beam or stroke taper the stroke and apply a lensflare or glow on the tip. Then apply filters for displacement, glow etc to get a more natural look. Maybe you can apply some fractal noise to displace and alpha the tail.
For more natural look I guess particles with trails or Trapcodes 3D Stroke should help without too much tedious handwork. I think the sampleclip you posted is done using particles.Karim
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Thanks for replying.
How would I keep the head and tail seperate.
At the moment I have a 3d stoke line tapering off and going up the page. So I have the shape, but not the colour not dusty tail.
What or how do you ‘alpha the tail’?
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Keep in mind that many good effects involve more than one layer. Often, you duplicate one layer, then change some (not all) of the settings of the effect in the second layer.
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I don’t understand why you don’t just use particular as a plane emitter (or very short and wide box…) and throw the auxilary system on it?
Set the amount of auxilary to a HUGE number and it’ll give you that ‘sperm’ look you’re going for. Colorize/glow/add some dof and it’ll look nice.
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