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If you don’t have any extra plugins, I’d do it with CC Ball action and a glow – see example project.
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The spool/unspool finished project if anyone is trying to accomplish the same thing.
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I ended up coming up with a solution(meant to post this a while back and never got to it. I ended up moving my initial rolled up bend on the x coordinate, while having the bend around the pipe come on with a linear ramp from the opposite direction. It wasn’t perfect as the 2nd bend distorts the tape roll a bit, but was good enough to satisfy the client.
I never thought of rotating the tube, if you don’t mind, I would love to see your solution to this-just to have another way to do it in the future.
Thanks
Johnny
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It’s a known issue in AE, and they say it’s been fixed., but there is a large discussion about it at Adobe.
After Effects 23.0, released a few hours ago, has fixed this issue.
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Thanks for taking a look at that, I was wondering if I was missing something. Just a guess, but I think the preset is incomplete, probably a couple of expressions and slider controls.
It was being used to just add a little movement to a very very dull section of text. Nothing special.
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I think that they used multiple glow effects to achieve that look. One glow for the very strong intense glow around the logo and another much larger and more diffuse glow. Also looks like the diffuse glow is offset in time by a couple frames after the more intense one.
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Hi Barbara,
I was able to recreate the cylinder completely in AE, making a texture layer comp that animates the effects, moving that into a final comp and applying CC Cylinder. I supposed through trial and error, create a bunch of cylinders with a decreasing radius, stack them together to make the cone. But with AE and C4D lite working together, I found it easier to just create a cone in C4D, add the texture, a few lights and just import that directly into AE. Then I added another linear wipe to recreate the effect.
I’ve attached it all to give you a starting point.
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Thank you Walter and Flip. I brute forced the first one, but Walter, what you have done is going to save me a bunch of time on screen where I need to show 6 different cam shapes. I was in way over my head on the expressions for this project.
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I just did a text build like that the other day but couldn’t figure out an expression to do it. What I did was right justified the text. Went to where I wanted the word to be finished typing on and added a keyframe into the source text. Then worked backwards, moving a couple frames earlier on the timeline and deleting a letter. Did that until I was finished. If someone has an expression to automate the process, I would love to know what that would be.
Check example project for how I did it.
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The look can be achieved pretty quickly if you have vector files of hand-drawn images(Adobe Stock has a lot).
I prep my files in Illustrator and use the fee Battle Axe plugin ‘overlord’ to bring the paths into After effects as shape layers. From there you can add a trim paths effects to create the writing on of the stroke. Add wiggle paths and play with the settings and you should have something a pretty good hand drawn look.
Made a quick little example project