[John Cuevas]

I didn’t, I slightly overlapped each mask. Since the overlap is slight and the animation only 1 second, you really can’t tell that the pieces wouldn’t perfectly fit together.

IF you go the route of using exact masks. I would change the transfer modes of each layer to alpha add.

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[John Cuevas]

If you created the cube in AE or it’s an object with an alpha channel.

Take your cube and use the mask tool to divide it into the shapes you want-using multiple masks. You will find that overlapping the masks a few pixels will make this project easier.

Now for each mask you created, duplicate your layer. IE..3 masks means you need 3 layers. Now open the masks and delete all but one mask for each layer. Layer 1 = Mask 1, Layer 2 = Mask 2, Layer 3 = Mask 3…

Now you can animate each seperate layer to break apart your cube. I created a sample project for you. 3586_cubeexample.aep.zip

I think you would find much of the information on this page beneficial.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
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[John Cuevas]

I’m unfamiliar with a kalidescope effect that will serve your needs.

Pretty easy to build a precomp where you place your video though, drop that into your final comp and create the kalidescope. Then you can just replace the video as needed, without having to rebuild everything.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

When it comes to bang for the buck instead of plugins, you might want to check out digitaljuice.com – They sell everything, stock projects, stock footage, stock graphics at pretty reasonable prices.

Very few projects where I don’t use something(mainly stock footage) I’ve bought from them.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

If you can’t key out the green, you are going to be stuck rotoscoping and masking.

Starting with putting the pictures in the frame, resize and position the video so it covers a frame. Turn off the layers eyeball and use the pen tool to create a mask in the area of the frame you want removed. Now change that mask to a subtraction mask. Place the video insert below the frame layer in the composition and turn back on it’s opacity. You could mask the video layer to the frame also, but I prefer this method and set it above the frame but I prefer this method.

For your actor walking in front of the frames, you are going to need to rotoscope him. There are many tutorials on that process:

https://library.creativecow.net/stern_eran/the-pen-tool/1

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/oconnell_pete/roto.php

https://ae.tutsplus.com/articles/in-depth/simple-principles-to-make-rotoscoping-less-crappy/

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Under Edit > Preferences >General uncheck the box that says “Use System Color Picker”

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

You need to call the event-producers for more detailed specs, aspect ratio, resolution and deliverable. They know what they need, they probably have a form email they can send you with everything you need to know.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Best tutorial I saw describing the technique – tutorial is in English, but the person is using a foriegn AE layout.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-Axf9oJ4Jk&feature=related

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[John Cuevas]

If you are mean the technique at 2:15, it looks like the editor tracked the finger, either with motion tracker, or maybe just created a solid and used the pen tool to create a path that folows his finger. Then you could use the stroke tool with some blur, trapcode stroke, or use particular to create the line applying the motion data

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Link to the Video, not very work appropriate

The techniques used in that video require a lot of planning(story boarding) and intermediate to advance AE skills-understanding of tracking, particle generators, text animators, rotoscoping(or perhaps green screening), compositing and simulators.

There are quite a few different techniques used in that video, if you could let us know specifically at what time/effect you are want to figure out, it would be helpful.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.