Jon Etheridge
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Thanks Walter.
I had already tried that and I even reset all of my preferences but neither worked.
I’m sure it’s something to do with the Big Pete file. I rendered out a scene today without Big Pete and it ran fast and smooth like it ought to.
Hopefully when I restructure and re-save the Photoshop file and re-rig the character everything will go back to normal. :p
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I have 12GB installed and I’ve told AE to use only 5 and to use 6 for other applications.
It has to be something to do with that one character. I realized that every time I’ve had a problem with the render it has that character on screen. I’m going to create a new photoshop file and re-rig him for the next episode to see if that clears things up.
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Just noticed something strange as well that seems to be related. Every time the render slows is when a certain character moves. For example, the characters names are Cuddles, Big Pete, and Father Hickey. When Cuddles and Hickey move it goes at a good speed, but when it gets to Big Pete it has a massive slowdown. I checked the source file and it’s no bigger than any of the files for the other characters.
Any ideas on that one?
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Hey man.
I would go your second rout by setting the anchor points and parenting everything to the torso and animating each part individually.
I use that style a lot for my cartoons. See some examples here. https://vimeo.com/1988217
and if you have any questions feel free to ask.
Jon Etheridge
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Hey Jeanie,
Wow. You just asked the million dollar question and honestly, I’m not sure of the right answer. Your using after effects instead of livetype so your already a step ahead of game. This may just be a personal thing but I hate seeing a commercial where they used livetype graphics because it looks so cheesy.
My hint is: Always have motion blur turned on. This seems to give the movement of the graphic a more natural feel. Also, I’ve seen a lot of commercial where the graphics are “professional” but they’re so flashy you lose the message of the commercial.
A good graphic to me does one thing: It sends a message. You can use a cool graphic to grab peoples attention, but then you have to stick with the message of the advertisement.
In all honesty, different people have different opinions when it comes to this type of question, but I’m up for hearing what everybody has to say. I hope a lot of people respond to this cause it would make for an interesting forum.
-Jon Etheridge
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Inside your camera options you should be able to turn depth of field off. That should keep everything in your composition sharp. I would recommend trying a “fake” depth of field after that using the gaussian blur effect for the layers you want blurred. It will give you a little bit more control. I hope this helps.
Good Luck 🙂
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I recommend taking the layers you don’t want affected by the lights and go into the material options (make sure you have 3D layer switched on) and change effected by lights from on to off. I hope this helps. 🙂
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Highlight your Keyframes, right click on them and select the Keyframe Interpolation tab. Change anything that says Bezier to Linear.
Hoe this helps.
-Jon Etheridge
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Hello Zach,
Awesome video, I had not seen this before.
My recommendation is to try a “work backwards” technique with this one. If you have Illustrator or photoshop I would start there with your text as it would stand at the end of the morph as your first layer. Then just create another layer and make it darker and add ink blots and so on and so on for how ever many layers you want. Save it, import it into after effects as a composition and just bring in the layers one at a time.
Thats my take, hope it helps.
-Jon Etheridge
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