Want to do this effect

[Steve Roberts]

That link just went to the home page. Could you please tell us how to navigate the site to find the movie?

[Chad Ashton]

https://www.dexigner.com/design_news/8132.html Sorry here is the link, the video is at the bottom of the pictures called AE chrisangel.mov

[Steve Roberts]

Hm.

The tunnel just looks like a black solid, masked and blurred or feathered, over everything.

The footage-to-cards looks like Card Wipe, but then it dissolves to another animation which may or may not be done in AE. At any rate, there’s no need for nulls (naah) — just animate each card separately.

I’d move the camera around the set, which would be made up of various floating cards.

Actually, I’m not sure why you’d need nulls …?

[Chad Ashton]

So set the cards on different z-axis and just make the camera spin down the tunnel to the different cards?

[Steve Roberts]

You mean set the cards at different Z-positions? Yes, basically, just set up a bunch of floating cards, and plan the camera motion so it goes where you want.

It’s just like shooting: you build a set and move your camera through it.

There’s no tunnel — there’s just a soft black vignette laid over the screen.

[Chad Ashton]

How would I go about adding a soft black vignette overing the screen to follow the camera, since I can’t add a mask and invert on the camera layer. Thanks again

Chad

[Alexander Gao]

Make it a 2D layer. This won’t be affected by the camera. Make an elliptical mask on a black solid, invert it, and feather the edges heavily.

Thanks,
Alexander Gao

“When the revolution happens, I’ll be leading it.”

[Steve Roberts]

You just make a black solid, draw an organically-shaped mask on it, invert the mask and increase the feather value of the mask. Leave it as a 2D layer — don’t make it 3D.

You see? That’s how it sits on top of everything and is not affected by any 3D motion.

It’s just 2D compositing over the rest of the layers.