[Aronduby]

this is as close to a “push that button” answer I can think of

enable time-remapping on all the layers you want to stop. I believe its under layer menu, and I think you can find it by right clicking on the layer name. Once time-remapping is enabled move your cursor to where you want everything to stop and make a keyframe and then convert it to a hold keyframe. You’ll probably need to precompose the layer(s) you want to stop and then do time-remapping on the precomp.

[Aronduby]

oh yeah, my bad, I didn’t read the question right.

[Aronduby]

seedRandom(1,true);
multiplier = random(1,3);
rotation*multiplier;

that should do it, the seedRandom(#,true) is what keeps it the same, actually just the true value. I’m not 100% sure whats going on with it, but the property is called “timeless” and setting it to true makes the random number not change every frame. If you use it on different layers and want a different random number, make sure to change the number thats the first value in the parenthesis.

[Aronduby]

one thing that might help with the line issue is having the next section that slides up behind the previous one and extending its mask out to the side so that the two would overlap, but since its behind the other layer only the new section would show up.

hope that makes sense and helps

[Aronduby]

one thing that might help with the line issue is having the next section that slides up behind the previous one and extending its mask out to the side so that the two would overlap, but since its behind the other layer only the new section would show up.

hope that makes sense and helps

[Aronduby]

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=1&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/hansen_jaysen/clouds/index.html

this tutorial can show you how to get the same kind of look as the Aurora Sky plugin.

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theres a “making of” on google video
https://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2228208048394613420&q=hp+commercial&hl=en

All the video footage they shot was just him moving his hands around. Once that was done, its just a matter of adding in the extras. The key is really good planning before hand.

I’ve been looking at doing a spoof of that commercial as a personal little side project, and in studying the actual commercial it looks like its alot of animating layers in 3d space and masking, and alot of attention to details.

[Aronduby]

when you import the psd in the import settings pop up choose “layer size” from the footage dimensions drop down.

[Aronduby]

illustrator also has ink blot scatter brushes included by default

[Aronduby]

thats close, and I think with some tweaking I could get it to do what I’m thinking, but I’m not sure. I’m looking more for something that keeps the comp timeline the same while jumping to a random time in one of the layers.

I think if I try putting that into the layer time-remapping it would work partially, but as soon as the conditional if isn’t meet won’t it jump back to its original place in time?