Joseph W. bourke
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If it weren’t for cassette tapes, what would we use pencils for?
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As Chris said, the Magic Wand tool will do the trick. Just click the solid area for any one of the countries, and you should get a selection to which you can apply the Layer Effects mentioned above.
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The Technique of Film Editing, by Karel Reisz and Gavin Millar, Focal Press, Reissue of Second Edition
It should in my opinion more properly be titled the “Art” of Film Editing. It is an in depth treatise on the history, practice, and principles film editing, and has added chapters on the films of the Fifties and Sixties.
This link will get you to Focal Press, one of the preeminent publishers of educational and technical texts relating to media and the arts:
https://www.routledge.com/focalpress/products/SCAR6540
Poke through here, and you’ll find a wealth of choices.
Joe Bourke
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I have done this many times in Photoshop. As long as the white outlines on your map are closed, you can select each country in Photoshop, and then use the New Layer VIA Cut command to put it in place, on its own layer. Then use layer effects and Color Overlay to color the layers the way you want them – this will allow you to easily change colors if you want – you could also use the Drop Shadow effect to kick out the country.
Bring your Photoshop file in to AE as a Composition, and your layers will be intact. Then you can animate them as you choose. You may have to convert your layer effects when the import to AE happens, but I can’t remember exactly. I think it will depend on what version of AE CC you’re using.
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One other thing to bear in mind, Stephen, is the CMYK to RGB conversion. You said that you’re working with Illustrator vectors, and that raised the red flag for me.
When you convert graphics from CMYK to RGB, there is always a color shift. You’re going from subtractive to additive color mode, so I’ve always found that the best way to avoid the client going nuts over the color shift, is to either have the client do the conversion (if they have an in-house art department or and agency), and decide what looks good, or do the conversion yourself, and get the approval on the colors before any animation is done.
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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In my opinion, this effect was done in a 3D application (I use 3DS Max, so the link below is a search based on Max:
https://www.google.com/search?q=3d+wave#q=3d+wave+3ds+max
The text could be done in After Effects, then saved as a .mov file with an alpha channel, then used as the texture map in Max (or other 3D application).
This is how I would do it. There are other ways, using other applications – I’m sure it could be done in Cinema 4D as well. The most difficult part is rigging the breaking wave shown at the beginning, but there are some free rigs out there, at least for Max. Here’s a tutorial on rigging waves in Max:
https://www.evermotion.org/tutorials/show/8313/3ds-max-rigging-waves
Joe Bourke
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Here’s a tutorial on creating “infinitely recursive” animations, ala Cyriak:
Joe Bourke
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And I believe the Voxil software comes with a sneeze and food chunk ballistic screen protector, which keeps pieces of bologna, chapati, rice, french fries (depending on your location/diet) from damaging the screen.
Joe Bourke
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Interestingly enough, I have a Windows phone, and the voice transcription on it is probably in the 95 to 100 percent range. Of course, this is me in front of the phone, speaking directly into the mic, but I can rattle off a text message or email with very little correction necessary.
There’s also voice transcription available in MS Word – I don’t know how you’d utilize it in your workflow, but it’s there.
Joe Bourke
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This will help you out, but I believe that in order to map one particular side of a polygon, you need to have set your texture mapping in a 3D package, and then exported it as a .obj file:
https://www.videocopilot.net/docs/element/texturing_and_materials/surface_uv_mapping/In order to map a video to your object in Element 3D, you need to have it in your comp as a layer, then assign that layer as a custom texture map.
You really should go over all of the tutorials and help files on the VideoCopilot website to get up to speed on Element 3D – there’s a lot to learn…
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com