[Graham Quince]

Thanks for all your advice guys. I think I will have to wait until I get the equipment and the grid idea is a great one.

Graham

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[Graham Quince]

It’s been ages since i’ve seen that movie, but from your description it shound like you could use Shatter (set to a high number of shards) and a gradient to recreate this effect. Your other logo would simply sit underneath the first one.

Hope that helps

Graham

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[Graham Quince]

I’d be tempted to pre-comp a single pipe segment coming off the ship and reaching the seabed, then duplicate the precomp for each segment, just moving each along.

Hope that helps

Graham

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[Graham Quince]

Hi

Seeing as you’re up against it and this artwork looks like it was create from many layered photoshop-ing…have you considered cheating. Check out the liquify effects and use it to animate these stills – You’ll get your movement and won’t have to worry about matching the look.

I’ve had a similar client request in the past and it’s a headache because it’s impossible to recreate someone else’s artwork and then animate it.

Good luck

Graham

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[Graham Quince]

Umm…have you tried the shatter filter? There’s a feew tutorials here at the cow and they will talk you through it a lot better than i could.

Graham

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[Graham Quince]

I don’t have that problem myself, making do with just the 1Gb – although there’s something about size not mattering i’ve heard lots of girls say 🙂 – but i think this link might help, Using more than 2GB of RAM in After Effects :

Graham

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[Graham Quince]

Sounds to me like the best way would be to use the circle fitler and animate its position to dart around the screen. you could even use the ‘motion sketch’ tool to get a really organic look. On top of that, add the glow filter and play around with the settings a bit.

When you’ve got one animation you’re happy with, you could always duplicate the layer and change the transfer mode to Add and move it around in space to see two sychronised fireflies. Or delete the position keyframes and do another motion sketch

Hope that helps

Graham

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[Graham Quince]

Just wanted to mentioned as well a product I stumbled across, CrazyTalk – right now they seem to be marketing it for schools, but as a cheap-ish bit of kit, it’s really useful.

Graham

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[Graham Quince]

Just wanted to mentioned as well a product I stumbled across, CrazyTalk – right now they seem to be marketing it for schools, but as a cheap-ish bit of kit, it’s really useful.

Graham

https://www.quinceweb.com – web design
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[Graham Quince]

Thanks for the advice guys, I think an after-show-party screening of the dress rehearsal is the way forward.

As for writing to my MP, (UK based) I might give that a go too.

Graham

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