D Langley
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Excellent, its a great resource.
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Gee it looks like I’m talking to myself, but after experimenting with a couple of expressions, exploding the letters at the top of a spiral is workable. So long as you want the individual characters to remain intact. What I have done so far will need some tweaking however. As the solution is tied into my tutorial, which will be appearing here on the Cow soon, I cannot provide specifics yet. I hope you are not in a time crunch.
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Gee it looks like I’m talking to myself, but after experimenting with a couple of expressions, exploding the letters at the top of a spiral is workable. So long as you want the individual characters to remain intact. What I have done so far will need some tweaking however. As the solution is tied into my tutorial, which will be appearing here on the Cow soon, I cannot provide specifics yet. I hope you are not in a time crunch.
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Looks like shatter isn’t going to cut it easily if at all. However, I think an expression solution is in order. I have an interesting idea but will need to check it out first.
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Looks like shatter isn’t going to cut it easily if at all. However, I think an expression solution is in order. I have an interesting idea but will need to check it out first.
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Hi Rob, I had replied to your post at CG Talk, perhaps you haven’t rechecked there. Anyway, the short answer is yes AE can do spiraling text.
There is a tutorial on this site by Joe Chao which does a spiraling text thing. However, each text string is a flat plane. Here’s the link:
If you are looking for text where individual characters flow smoothly around curves, up and down slopes and even changes in pitch, I may have your solution. I am currently finalizing a tutorial for creating such true 3D text. My “Ribbon” text flows beautifully around any motion path including a spiral, and it is true 3D in that it will flow around other 3D layers in the scene.
Considering you intend to explode the text, the shatter effect may work. It can give depth to the text (if you require it) and do the exploding. Shatter can use a comp camera, but I am not sure yet if it can do exactly what you want. Do you want the letters to remain intact but blow out in all directions? or do you want the individual letters to break apart and blow out in all directions?
Either way, I will run a test of applying shatter to my work and see how it looks. I will post a reply and let you know what happens.
As for my tutrial, I have contacted the folks here at the Cow and hope to publish it on this site very soon.
Dave
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Hi Rob, I had replied to your post at CG Talk, perhaps you haven’t rechecked there. Anyway, the short answer is yes AE can do spiraling text.
There is a tutorial on this site by Joe Chao which does a spiraling text thing. However, each text string is a flat plane. Here’s the link:
If you are looking for text where individual characters flow smoothly around curves, up and down slopes and even changes in pitch, I may have your solution. I am currently finalizing a tutorial for creating such true 3D text. My “Ribbon” text flows beautifully around any motion path including a spiral, and it is true 3D in that it will flow around other 3D layers in the scene.
Considering you intend to explode the text, the shatter effect may work. It can give depth to the text (if you require it) and do the exploding. Shatter can use a comp camera, but I am not sure yet if it can do exactly what you want. Do you want the letters to remain intact but blow out in all directions? or do you want the individual letters to break apart and blow out in all directions?
Either way, I will run a test of applying shatter to my work and see how it looks. I will post a reply and let you know what happens.
As for my tutrial, I have contacted the folks here at the Cow and hope to publish it on this site very soon.
Dave