Paul Hennell
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How many you need to draw depends a little on how fast you want the horse to move, and how exactly you want it to look. You could probably do a decent animation using just one or two pictures, splitting each limb onto a different animated layer and animating with key-frames & the puppet tool.
Not sure how the transition might work from that but it’s probably a good start.
Also, while there’s like better resources out there somewhere the idea of animating a horse made me instantly think of these famous photos. Might prove useful.
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You basically had it, just the formatting was a problem. The expression:
x = index*640;
[x,value[1]]
would work fine. (Mostly)[That expression assigns X as what you suggested (‘layer index * 640’) then gives it to the layer along with the original value for y. (Positions need two numbers for the X and Y dimensions).]
Just as good coding practice I’d suggest we change it to:
x = index*width;
[x,value[1]]
which uses the layer width for the multiplier rather then 640. (Slightly irrelevant as this would break using different width images in the same project, but you know, it’s just better 😉Anyway, with that you can use the oh-so-handy Edit > Copy Expression item to copy the expression from the property, then select all layers and paste!
From there you could parent them all to a null and move them about as one etc.
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I think I’ve had this problem before, and it was related to the ‘compatibility mode’ option in photoshop.
Open the PSD and save it again (Or save as) to see if the check box thing that pops up about compatibility is ticked. (If the pop-up doesn’t show, look in the preferences to set the compatibility to ‘always ask’ or ‘always’.)
Can’t guarantee it’ll help, but you may as well give it a go.
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As captions don’t often require any real effects, this isn’t that hard. In AE you’d just need to add a text layer above your video with the text tool.
To be honest though, if you’re not an AE person, I’d recommend just using premiere’s built-in titling tool. It does text just fine, will keep you all in one program, and will be easier to edit along with, as it’s right there in the timeline.
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Don’t have illustrator open so this isn’t very detailed insturctions (and still a bit of a newb, so it might not be the best way) – but it should be possible to achieve this with use of a opacity mask.
Copy your artwork and paste it in front of the original. Blur this copy of the artwork, and then use the transparency window to add an opacity mask to it. (using the panels options triangle menu in the upper right)
Now by adding a black & white gradient onto the mask you’ll fade the blurred version out, showing the normal underneath. Bit of a kludge – but it’ll look like a gradient based blur.
Notes if the above hasn’t worked – You might need to make the gradient first and select it with the art work to make the opacity mask – I can’t remember exactly how it works. Also the two check boxes in the opacity mask settings (Invert and the other one) might change how it looks if it doesn’t seem to work the first time. Also I use CS3 – if you don’t I have no idea how things might differ.
Good luck!
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Well Andrew Kramer is a legend – I use after effects predominantly, and almost every site you visit links to his. I must admit I’ve found a similar issue to your friend – good AI tuts are hard to find, and I constantly feel I’m doing something in a silly/dumb way. (Often I am – but I’m learning :D)
Deke Mcclelland does some pretty good stuff for lynda.com – I had a month or two there, where I got quite used to his style (He does the photoshop stuff to!) but sometimes he can seem to waffle a little too much, and it was dryer as it was more of a ‘course’ rather then Kramer’s learn-as-you-go/’Lets make this’ approach.
I think the problem is that us video makers make video tutorials because we already have skills in that area – AI users would write up something as its easier (And could be too long to video…)
Still, there’s some good written stuff out there. Some of my favorite sites are: https://rwillustrator.blogspot.com/, https://vector.tutsplus.com/ and https://www.vectordiary.com. )
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That looks like it might just be a vertical blur with the website fading in as it fades out.
Reminds me of a fairly common trick you could probably use to your advantage:
linear(transform.opacity,0,100,30,0);Add that expression to the blur effect (Alt click on the blur amount stopwatch) and it will link the layers opacity to the blur-amount. (The expression in English breaks down to ‘As Opacity moves from 0 to 100 change this value from 30 to 0.’)
As you’ll see when you play with it, this means you can blur & fade everything in together using only opacity keyframes – change the ’30’ value for different strengths.
As for other advice – experiment with the different blur effects – if you put them next to each other you realize just how different they can be, some do much more ‘obvious’ blurring then others.
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I think you need to read up a little on the differences between photoshop and illustrator. Photoshop uses pixels and illustrator uses vectors (which make up paths). If you’ve ever used the pen or shape tools inside photoshop you’ll have worked with paths, but everything else is different.
Opening a jpg in illustrator will just treat it as an imported picture. To convert it to paths (As this tutorial needs), you can either trace with the pen tool, or possibly (depending on how complex it is) use the ‘Live trace’ feature.
Search around for ‘tracing a logo in illustrator’ and you should find a fair few video tutorials to walk you through the process.
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Revealing right to left can be done with some simple changes to the ‘range selector’ in the typewriter effect.
Apply the typewriter preset to your text then in the timeline toggle down Text > Animator1 > Range Selector 1.
You should have two keyframes under ‘start’ from 0% to 100%. Delete these keyframes and add two new ones under ‘End’ going from 100% to 0%. Text should now be typed on from right to left.
(Then if you’re going to use this effect a lot save it as your own preset – click on ‘Animator1’ then go to the Animation menu > Save animation preset. Call it what you like and save it under the text presets folder. Now you can apply it in the same way as the original typewriter effect.)
As for the blinking cursor, that’s harder to do – but there’s been a couple of discussions about it here before, so search around and you should find some advice.
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Dunno how well it would have worked for this specific task, but the Ease and Whizz script, brings the bouncy power of expressions to the ease of just hiting a button. Worth looking at for the future if you don’t have it.
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