Brian Berneker
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Eran Stern put a ripple effect on the floor in his tutorial here… don’t know if it’s quite what you want but could be of interest:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/stern_eran/Tornado_Text2.php
Brian
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those digital juice clips are great. Are they already pre-done, or do they give you the dancers separately? You can do TONS with that if they do… Also, the disco ball would be a great element to use.
I like your quick one-off of the logo treatment. Could be tweaked a bit, perhaps with some decorative embellishments and maybe some stripes or wavy lines etc. Maybe play with the timing/position/movement of the starglows… but still a nice job for a quick start. Also, maybe have the logo move as well as the camera… something like they do here?
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/larsen_carl/cube_world2.php
I both love and hate the font though. It looks really cool, but some of the letters are hard to make out. I’d look for something still cool but easier to read. People aren’t going to try too hard to read it if they can’t make it out easily with only a glance.
What are you using for the background? Do you still want to do a Miami street exterior, or just go abstract on black per the digital juice samples? Maybe you could play with a pano and do the cube world trick? If you get your dancers seperately, try doing some pre-comps and “discoing up” some of the characters… (i.e. hard hat and vest, feathers – village people cliche but it works – maybe some bell bottoms and a fro here and there)
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You could get a lot of impact with a flasy retro title. I’ve always loved the old ABC Friday Night Movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H27N5LheWT8
You could create a logo something like that using the balls method described in the Aharon’s Jumbotron tutorial and add a glow or bloom filter to it with some crazy motion trails.
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/Jumbotron.php
Have that on top of your action and maybe spin it around a few times or something… between that and some glitter balls and searchlights, I think you will have a pretty cool retro party happenin!
Brian
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Your original post had some links to some exterior street views. Very attractive, art deco Miami stuff….
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Hey another way to make things a bit more exciting could be to have people out dancing in the street with search lights lighting up the sky. Just mask out the foreground buildings and put a “beam” object over the sky… I think most of selling the gag will be with costumes… leisure suits, chest hair, big afros… Putting the talent on scene making it a “block party” would be the basic premise…
Another thought would be like this: have you seen the TV commercial where it’s daylight outside, but the car’s headlights turns everything into night? You could have people walking by the disco wearing “ordinary” clothes but each time they pass by the “light” of the club door (or disco ball etc.) their clothes magically transform into disco clothes! (cheesy, yes, but that’s disco for ya!)
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Precomp and time remapping?
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I only hope they were the kind of suggestions you were looking for – there are so many kinds of “help” to offer… As soon as I saw your pictures, I immediately started thinking of “Dexter” but that has nothing to do with disco!!
By the way, do you mean contemporary modern disco clubs, or retro-style 70’s disco?
Brian
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There’s a tutorial somewhere here on the Cow about using trapcode particular to create virtual sets (the example is for Big 10 basketball). It also shows how to make huge crowds of people from just a few, so you might try compositing some elements together in 3D to create the dancing crowds and background. You might be able to use CC particle playground of you don’t have trapcode. Then you can have the freedom to move the camera around the scene.
Also, look at trapcode LUX or some other light emitter filters. They will let you create disco ball light rays that can stream out… i don’t know how you will get away with putting disco balls outside, but I think you could probably pull it off somehow if it’s visuall interesting enough. Once again if you don’t have Lux, you can probably create a light beam object and move it around with screen or add mode to fake light beams, it will just be more tedious, though I suppose there might be a cc particle workaround…
After that, think about all things disco for your props… neon lights, illuminated floor squares, afros and shades and tight leather clothes…
Brian
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How did you get it to export layered PSD files from the AE timeline? I have a project I’m doing that needs to be exported to PSD layers, but the only way I can do it is one frame at a time… I’m also using CS4
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Even a script or automation process would be handy… anyone know what the script command is for Composition > Save Frame As > Photoshop Layers?