Chris Smith
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AE, I can’t tell you much about, but in many of the popular 3D apps it’s a piece of cake by turning on dynamics. Like in C4d, the dynamics module or the free plugin “Fizz” will do this easily.
Particular has some dynamics and collisions if you’re willing to buy the plug-in for AE.
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I think what will sell the effect more than swarming or flocking or any focus effects will be the sound. If you have the fly buzzing sound, you can get away with probably a simple particle burst from one of the CC particle systems. How many frames is the shot? Is it long lens medium or wide lens? Do you need to track the swarm into the shot or is it a lock off?
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This forum needs a sticky post at the top of the list for the same questions that are asked about every other day for the last couple of years that should be checked first by posters……oh wait…nevermind.
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[Tyler Paul] “What else should I try? “
A Mac?
LOL, had to. Sorry. Ahem.
**I am in no way stating a preference for a platform but merely making a joke. Federal DIC. Equal housing lender. Void where prohibited**
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In the multipass settings it’s one of the channels you can render out. It’s not an effect.
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Thanks for the whole series Mylenium. Very detailed and thought out. These are so good they should be a DVD for sale.
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I did this effect for a spot once. Ended up just using a sweep nurbs to make a long tapered thin tube grow along a path. Add a white material to it. Render this and bring it into AE. Blur it and screen transfer mode it over your video. Drop the opacity a bit to taste. Now, do this a few times and make each instance of the sweep nurbs slightly differnt in path and timing, then layer them all together with various amounts of blur and opacity settings.
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Also, if Spaceman where to hold down option/ALT key while pressing the middle mouse button it will do the same thing.
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Yeah, I’ve done a number of experiments with RSMB and it works really well. You render the motion vector output from C4D and use it on the Vector MB plug that comes in the RSMB suite in AE.
Download the demo of RSMB and play with it.
HOWEVER! Read the instructions extremely carefully about how to use the alpha channel with it. It uses the alpha not for transparency, but to define where to “Turn it on” so-to-speak. If you don’t do the alpha right, the blur will just be an arbitrary direction and won’t match to the motion of the render. But once you get the process down, it’s very cool. If you go frame by frame you will notice small deformations here and there, but I dare you to notice while in motion.
Chris Smith
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