[David Delouchery]

N,
You’re one of the good ones!
D.

[David Delouchery]

Thanks Nel for your comment. I just poured over your portfolio. My question is when do you sleep? I was accused of the same thing this morning when I sent off some Photoshopped still proofs to a client at 2:30 this morning. People as busy as you seem to be shouldn’t be filling their spare time up helping out grunt drones like me but I do appreciate it. I did explore the whole null object concept before I posted but my AE skills have dulled over the past 5 yrs and the whole 3D camera motion path thing is not intuitive for me yet. I’m sure I could achieve it this way but time/budget is a luxury I don’t have for such desires. Having seen this effect so often in the past couple of years (which I still haven’t described properly or found a suitable name for it yet) I have to believe that it has to be a commercially designed plug in. Maybe it’s the Planar Distribution Assistant. I won’t know till I try it. The samples shown do not highlight the affect that is in style now. I just remembered an example. At 51 seconds into 4Ward’s demo reel they have treated the text in the fashion I’m talking about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vTwxJ7dQIY

Anyways thanks again Nel.

Dave

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[David Delouchery]

Thanks Abie,

This looks like it will do the trick. I realize now that the layers are placed on different planes on the Z axis and then the camera flies through towards each plane. If this is the tool that they are using to create that effect that I have seen in various commercials and promo reels then great! I still feel though that there must be a easier specific plug in that achieves this effect but at least this one should make the task WAY easier. It seems though that Red Giant has bought up the plugins from Digital Anarchy but they are not ready yet for purchase. I wasn’t specific about which program I wanted to use because I wanted the plugin regardless of what program I needed to manipulate it in. I assumed that After Effects would be the defacto program anyway. I appreciate your help.