Lee Skinner
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Although, I believe only the most recent version of Particular has this capability. For the longest time, I had to make due with a version that could not let particles be affected by depth of field… X(
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Using brackets like these:
[X,Y,Z]
You can control any individual dimension. I often use it for wiggling or 3D offset, EI:
position=[0,0,index*20]
index being the layer number in your timeline panel.
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The two ways I’m aware of are…
A) using Photoshop 3D (then importing a PSD file as a composition and not as footage, and making sure you check Live Photoshop 3D)
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B) Using Zaxworks 3D Invigorator, which is handy but one thing I don’t like about it is that you can’t have other 3D objects in your composition interact with the plugin. IE if I brought in a model of an airplane, I wouldn’t be able to have a 3D solid cut right through the middle of it.
You would think that 3D modeling capabilities would have come to After Effects before Photoshop, but oh well… Maybe AE CS5 will have it!
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I’d try just making a couple solids. One red, and one white (or whatever colours you want really). Mask out the shapes you want to reveal (probably with rectangular mask), then either…
A) Set each solid’s anchor point to the leftmost side of its mask, and as Ben suggested, adjust the transform properties (probably scale horizontally) and keyframe them to a timing of your liking.
OR
B) Animated each mask’s path so that it goes from thin to wide.
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C) Apply a Linear Wipe effect on each solid, and animate from beginning to end accordingly.
The advantage to “A” will be that you will be able to achieve a motion blur, if that is what you want. As for the rest, the font looks pretty familiar, maybe trebuchet?
Design is what you leave out.