Joseph W. bourke
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Adam –
Here’s a good place to start. We all hit the wall now and then, and viewing other artists’ works is a good resource. The work is in figuring out how the artist accomplished the graphic design and animation:
https://aescripts.com/learn/cat/inspiration/
If your knowledge of After Effects is really that minimal, you may just get further frustrated by watching these, and that means you have to go to square one, and any of the great Adobe tutorials:
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/tutorials.html
Before you can learn the advanced stuff, you have to have a good grasp of the basics.
Joe Bourke
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My guess would be that it’s pretty complex shape animations done using a text layer which was converted to a shape, and then the colors inside the text outline are done using other shapes, with the text shape as a mask. It may also be done with expressions. Looks pretty complicated, and I don’t see any tutorials out there that lay the process out. You may try searching some more, though…
Joe Bourke
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Maybe one of these?
https://animography.net/collections/typefaces
There are others offering animated typefaces – just do a search on it.
Joe Bourke
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You’re welcome John –
It’s a very powerful little script, but there are a lot of controls. The good news is that it’s well documented.
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Thank you Sam –
I think that if you do any amount of flying 3D title work, or other projects which don’t require much modeling, that Element 3D will pay for itself quickly. There are several pre-built libraries which you can buy from Video Copilot, and the lighting and texturing capabilities give you very nice looking 3D very quickly.
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I’m not sure whether this is what you’re after, and whether it has the control you need, but it’s pretty amazing – and free:
https://www.sandervandijk.tv/blog/ouroboros
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Aah – thanks Walter. That is indeed quite a bit different from ACID’s capabilities. I’ll be interested to see how it works from an artistic point of view. The algorithm it uses must be pretty sophisticated, but editing a piece of music well is based on artistic decisions, which you can’t build in to software. But the demo was pretty impressive!
Joe Bourke
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The only way I’ve had any luck with 3D from Photoshop to AE is by saving the model out of Photoshop as a format which Element 3D will read (I believe I used .obj – it’s also possible that I had to bring it into 3DS Max to get it to a .obj file). But I was able to get it to work – but you would have to at least own Element 3D.
I’m using the CS6 version of Photoshop, so your results may vary, but it will definitely save (using the Export 3D Layer command) out a .obj file. Then it goes in to Element 3D in AE. Since you don’t say what version you’re using, I’m just guessing at what will work for you.
Joe Bourke
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I wonder whether they licensed this technology from Sony, or that it’s just relatively simple to implement. I’ve been using Sony ACID Pro for a few years now, and was amazed at this ability with just a .wav file. I could take a music clip which was, say, 100bpm, and change it to whatever speed I wanted it, without effecting pitch. As a matter of fact, when you start a music project in ACID, the software “learns” what the bpm of the first track is, then can automaticlly adjust non-matching tracks to fit the tempo.
Sony sells what they call “8 packs” of library music – these are essentially 8 track versions of music beds, which, when opened in ACID, allow you to create whatever arrangements you need, right down to the tempo – so you can fit a piece of music to your production perfectly, right down to using a quieter/simpler version of a track when you’ve got a VO, and that sort of thing. It’s not dissimilar to Sonicfire Pro, but to see it in in Audition will put the technology a bit closer to home.
If you want to download a free trial of ACID, it’s at:
https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/trials/musicstudio
Sony also gives away a free 8 pack of their music beds once a week:
https://www.acidplanet.com/downloads/8packs/
There are some pretty sophisticated arrangements in their library. And there’s also a free version of the software called ACID Xpress.
Joe Bourke
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In support of Dennis’ points above, a few years ago I did an animation project, working for a company in the US, with the producer and editor in the Central African Republic (Bangui). The collaboration went quite well, considering that the producer’s native language was French, and the editor’s was Sango.
The glitches all occured due to the lack of a fast connection in Bangui, frequent power outages there, and the fact that the final delivery had to be sent on a USB drive from New Hampshire to Bangui, CAR. The producer told me that even sending the drive UPS, the arrival date would fall somewhere between a week and a couple of months! Luckily it was a week and a half. Even our Skype communications had to be audio only, due to the lack of bandwidth. It was a nail-biter.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com