Scott Novasic
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Just a note to add, ‘rendering’ happens FASTER than realtime for a lot of things in AE.
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Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
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A lot of the things you will see in packages like D Juice are looks you can make on your own. The main thing to me, is simply the time saving aspect of them. If your a busy animator their great. If you have the time, it’s fun to challenge yourself and create your own.
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did you “expand the appearance” of your illustrator file BEFORE you import it into invigerator?
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Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
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your very kind. Im sorry, Im pretty much self taught. I have a college degree in Design and Illustration, but the computer stuff I practiced and practiced without a life for many years. I do believe in tutorials when it comes to learning HOW TO USE a given tool. Not so much how to make a specific thing. Once you understand, really understand how
a plug in or tool operates, than you can pretty much be the guy that MAKES the looks others try and find tutorials to duplicate.again, sorry I dont have any tutorials. Im always happy to share what I used and how I accomplished a given look, if your specific.
Im very lucky right now, im really busy with work. If I get any real free time in the future I may consider doing a creative Cow master series dvd, or some tutorials. I just cant commit when im this busy for now……Scott
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Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
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my reel has a number of samples related to football if you care to view it
https://web.mac.com/finaleffects/SuperNova_Animation_%26_Visual_Effects/SuperNova_Home.html
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Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
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I’m in la as well. Not sure why that matters. Every artist I have worked with
Here. And animation companies that bring me in house, HAVE AE.
Some have fcp but off doing longer form stuff. Editing in it is simple. 38 artists?
That’s huge, I would never consider that
Kind of workflow normal, when 98% of production houses in the US have much less than half that number of artists on staff. Usually projects are given to one individual who has fcp and AE, or to a small team with the same software. ONLY when were given large amounts of long video clips, would we even touch fcp. And even then, we would give the footage to the FCP only editor
And have him give us what we need. We have 10x the creative flexibility in ae than we do in FCP. That’s just a fact. These are primarily 30-60 second
Spots. Motion graphics are not just post effects. Where I’ve been, in general, AE is king, fcp is used only in projects with a ton of footage to sort through. And then, we just do the footage sorting in fcp and export those clips to as. Sounds like you work in a factory type workflow with so many people. -
any number of basic particle systems can do that. They just did a quick cut from the head to a particle system with basic ‘lines’ as the emitter.
They also had these lines take on the coloring of the ‘head’ of the character. Most particle systems can inherit the color of the host layer. Given that they did not have the heads actual shape ‘explode’ it is a pretty easy effect to do. I did not list an actual particle system because I believe most any one out there can do that effect as good or better.hope that helps some..
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Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
web:https://web.mac.com/finaleffects -
first off I isolate just the faces of the text if there are bevels.
in a seperate comp I would create 5 or 6 solids. On each of the solids use the pen matte tool and cut various vertical and angled shapes and feather them a lot. Then animate each one from left to right or whatever your preference is. Vary their shapes and speed to get unique highlites. Use the matte of the letters faces to cut out the highlites and place that comp on top of your text.You can change the hilites up by editing the one comp add colors to the
hightlites or whatever. I do this for BASIC ‘sheen’ hilights.If you isolate the faces of the letters you can try all kinds of plugins as well.
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Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
web:https://web.mac.com/finaleffects -
wow, this is an invigerator challenge. 🙂
at first glance, you have a number of “floating” shapes which would result in individual models in invigerator. Those shapes need to
be ‘cut out’ of your main shape, NOT floating on top of it.Im sorry, i HAVE to go right now to a dentist appt, if you can wait about 2 hours, I will see if I can make this file work for you.
SuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
web:https://web.mac.com/finaleffects -
you can send it to me
SuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
web:https://web.mac.com/finaleffects