[Laszlo Kovacs]

Not yet, but I finally discovered, that enabling and turning on motion blur to those layers led to these messages. I still don’t understand it, so I had to render without motion blur.
Thanks anyway!

Laszlo
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Life is too short to drink poor wine.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

It depends on the project, but there are some fundamental ones.
Zaxwerks 3D Invigorator (or ProAnimator) for those who must create outstanding 3D animations fast within the AE enviroment.
Check out Digital Anarchy, Panopticum and Trapcode just to name a few (and their Forums on the COW).
Hopefully this is enough to start planning to spend your money… 🙂

HTH

Laszlo
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Life is too short to drink poor wine.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

… or scroll down a bit to see a kinda similar thread… 🙂

Laszlo
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Life is too short to drink poor wine.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

I was just quicker than John Dickinson, not smarter… 🙂
Check his website where he has excellent Invigorator tutorials, and an article about the difference between Invigorator and ProAnimator. And, of course a lot more. 🙂

A good place to start.

HTH

Laszlo
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Life is too short to drink poor wine.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

Well, I think it depends on the source.
Is is a screenshot form a video, or just a single photo?
If it’s a video, then you should turn to the pros at the After Effects forum, because this is probably Trapcode’s 3D Stroke.
I don’t know of such plugin under Photoshop, but if was a photo, and I had to achieve this, I’d surely use 3D Stroke (it’s possible to import layered Photoshop files into AE). I’d then mask out the actors where I want the strokes to appear behind them, apply the effect, and export a single frame back to Photoshop.
Done.
Or, simply brushes in Photoshop? I’m not sure…

HTH

Laszlo
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Life is too short to drink poor wine.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

Nuff said.

Check out the Zaxwerks website.

Laszlo
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Life is too short to drink poor wine.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

Hi guys!

While you have almost endless possibilities with AE to create amazing animations, you will immediately see its limitations when it comes to flash export. Only certain text effects can be rendered out, the program simply skips the unsupported actions.
You can import Illustrator files into AE, and continously rasterize them (hey, it’s in the name!), but the final result is a video (so, pixel based), not a vector animation.
Many think that creating an animation in AE is far simpler than in Flash (and I agree), but at the end you’ll lose the benefits of vector graphics – not to mention the file size. 🙁

Happy New Year everybody!

Laszlo
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Life is too short to drink poor wine.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

Once I used a 3D globe and a CD case with Invigorator. Worked well.

Laszlo
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Life is too short to drink poor wine.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

Yes, the Total Training series worth every penny, but here’s what happened to me once:
I got stuck with a CD cover, no idea, nothing but darkness…
Then I went to good-tutorials.com, and randomly picked several tutorials while waiting for inspiration. After 30-40 minutes I found the one I’ve been looking for, and solved my problem, not to mention the new technique I learned in the meantime…

And good-tutorials is free – don’t underestimate it just because you’ll see some ‘how-to-frame-a-picture’ and ‘how-to-apply-motion-blur’ type tutorials, there’s even more there.

Hope this helps

Laszlo
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Life is too short to drink poor wine.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

https://www.hbo.com/carnivale/behind/credits/

https://www.pluginz.com/news/1141

https://www.uemedia.net/CPC/designinmotion/article_4007.shtml

(I hope I don’t break any site rule with these links…)

HTH

Laszlo
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Life is too short to drink poor wine.