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Nate Biehl
March 16, 2015 at 6:45 pm in reply to: adding motion blur to composited elements in reverse stabilization

Did not think of that, will try it!

Motion Graphics Designer
Warm Springs Productions
Missoula, Montana
Nate Biehl
August 28, 2014 at 3:48 pm in reply to: Adding checkbox keyframes at determined times with a script

Actually, I think I got it.
The round changes the input of the slider into whole numbers. When the slider amount gets to a number that’s greater than the index of the mask, it changes it’s opacity to 100. Until the, it stays at 0 percent opaque.

Elegant solution. Thanks, Dan.

Motion Graphics Designer
Warm Springs Productions
Missoula, Montana
Nate Biehl
August 28, 2014 at 3:40 pm in reply to: Adding checkbox keyframes at determined times with a script

Dan, this expression works great. Thank you. Any way you can break down how it works for me?

Motion Graphics Designer
Warm Springs Productions
Missoula, Montana
Nate Biehl
July 27, 2012 at 6:05 pm in reply to: Need assistance with follow expression

Thank you very much for your help, Dan. That did it!

Motion Graphics Designer
Warm Springs Productions
Missoula, Montana
Nate Biehl
July 25, 2012 at 7:40 pm in reply to: Need assistance with follow expression

Hi Dan,
That seems to be closer, but the rotation is about -90 degrees off. I tried putting a transform effect on the segment, but that moves the anchor point and throws everything off.

Is there any way to adjust the code to rotate the layer 90 degrees clockwise?

Thank you for helping me iron this out.

Motion Graphics Designer
Warm Springs Productions
Missoula, Montana
Nate Biehl
July 25, 2012 at 5:19 pm in reply to: Need assistance with follow expression

Dan, following the null works really well with 2D layers, no unexpected changes in orientation. If there is a way to get 2d layers to follow the null’s orientation along the path, all my problems would be solved!

Motion Graphics Designer
Warm Springs Productions
Missoula, Montana
Nate Biehl
July 25, 2012 at 4:48 pm in reply to: Need assistance with follow expression

Actually, Dan, I just remembered that I initially tried this approach. I had problems with the pieces I was trying to animate suddenly flipping 180 degrees when the path turned a corner, and then flipping back when I turned another corner. Couldn’t figure out what was happening, so I went the other route to keep my pieces from flipping themselves across an axis without warning.

Motion Graphics Designer
Warm Springs Productions
Missoula, Montana
Nate Biehl
July 25, 2012 at 4:37 pm in reply to: Need assistance with follow expression

Hi Dan,
Thanks for your response! I am working with 2d layers. Will this technique work on 2d layers, or do I need to change them to 3d?
Thanks again.

Motion Graphics Designer
Warm Springs Productions
Missoula, Montana
Nate Biehl
July 24, 2012 at 11:33 pm in reply to: Animating snake-like motion

This expression worked perfectly for me. I’m making a centipede. Thanks

Anyone know how to make the following segments maintain their distance when the lead segment stops instead of converging on the lead segment’s final position? I need the centipede to stop moving and then start again. I could time remap it to freeze, but then I have to deal with motion blur, etc. Any way to do it within the expression?

Motion Graphics Designer
Warm Springs Productions
Missoula, Montana