Ryan Hill
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A perfectly flat ground is going to have perspective lines that converge on the horizon, so that’s your starting point.
To figure out the angle your light should be, try to find something in your footage that’s pointing straight up and down, with a visible shadow. Then add your own thing that’s pointing straight up and down, and get the shadows parallel.
Then maybe use the car footage as a distortion map on the shadow so the ground isn’t completely flat.
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Check out the “scripting guide” pdf that comes on your After Effects CD. It’ll explain the idea of writing scripts for After Effects. But you should probably learn some of the basics before getting into that.
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Maybe you can use card dance as a track matte and make all the cards shrink to nothing.
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You could duplicate the layer 20 times and mask out a different part of the text each time, then move them apart seperately. Can you write javascript? You could write something to automate the process.
You have to explain why you don’t want to use shatter for us to know what would be better.
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Or, if you want to get fancy or want to do it in one layer, you can animate a levels filter.
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Try a bulge distortion on the lemon just shortly before it bursts, and maybe continue expanding it during the shatter. Try putting it both above and below the shatter effect to have them interact differently.
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I think you might add the anchor points of the two layers, instead of just an arbitrary 720.
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I think you might add the anchor points of the two layers, instead of just an arbitrary 720.
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Or, you can duplicate the layer and use it as an alpha track-matte on the layer you’re zooming in on.
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I think Pascal has functions.