[Craig Hellen]

I had to do a similar type of thing and yes, im sorry to say that the best way i found is to use illustrator, repair was needed but thats the only one i could use,

Someone else maybe a little more helpful, i guess im jus here to say… I have felt your pain!

Craig

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[Craig Hellen]

hi there, well there is a few ways you can do this.

Id use this tutorial for the reflection part :https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/3d_reflections_with_refractions/

Arrange the elements in a circle in 3dspace round a null object.

Once all are positioned parent all the elements to the null. then u can rotate them all at once by editing the appropriate rotation vales on the Null object.

Hope this helps!

Craig

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[Craig Hellen]

ah im sorry!
ill sort that out for future ones, sorry guys!

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[Craig Hellen]

trapcode shine would work well but if you dont wanna spend out a load of money you might be able to tweak an effect i made a tutorial on how to create lighting effects without shine.

Doing the 3d move will be the hard bit.

Tutorial link:
https://vimeo.com/2601856

it might not do quite what you are after and if not i would also say.. trapcode shine!

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[Craig Hellen]

I have done this before but only for a couple of seconds. I did it on a logo animation and this technique worked really well, though it is more time intensive (but a load cheaper!)

So i had a logo that i wanted to “glitch” up. I took the logo into photoshop and literally took parts of it and applied the pixelate filter to it. saved this on a different layer.
did this a few times with varying amount of pixelation and added some color variances to boot.
Once brought in i jus animated the layers over to the top of the original for a couple of frames then back, you kinda have to play with it a bit.
I then went and found a glitch sound effect from somewhere and bingo the effect was done and it was pretty believable.

If i were to do it again i would probably use a nested comp where i applied a time expression to it so it jumped about a bit more randomly.

Hope this is another method of use!

Craig

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[Craig Hellen]

ah ha, my friend i have done something just like this, and yes AE would be the way to go,
heres the link
https://shorts.creativecow.net/film/short-flash-bulbs-basic

combine this with this tutorial i made on light burst behind text and you might be onto a winner
link to tutorial:
https://podchains.net/tutorials/light-burst-shine-tutorial-after-effects/
if that link doesnt work go here:
https://vimeo.com/2601856

Hope this helps,
Cheereo

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[Craig Hellen]

How about making a timeline in illustrator and moving along it, could be a cool one! have images aimate up from the time line, some cool text animation and ou would have a cool project! If you wanna have a neat bit of text animation i made a tutorial a few days ago that you might wanna check out,
https://podchains.net/blog/text-effect-video-tutorial/

Hope you like the idea,

Craig

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[Craig Hellen]

hmm true! I had in my mind that if i had a autotraced element then i could use combinations of masks & duplicates that would interact with the auto traced mask. Might do some more digging as i am a bit of a novice on 3d programs,

Thanks anyway!

Craig

PS you help out so many people on here! Legend! You should start some tutorials for the COW!

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[Craig Hellen]

ok so i have done a tutorial on this now, its done with text but the same principal is usable for your composition..
https://podchains.net/tutorials/light-burst-shine-tutorial-after-effects/

Take a look any questions gimme a yell

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[Craig Hellen]

yes there is, you can either use the trapcode shine plugin. (google it for the results)there is another way using cc radial blur, im gonna make a quick vid tutorial on it, ill post here when done

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