[Thehardmenpath]

Thanks to you for understanding my terrible English!

[Thehardmenpath]

Yeah, the 3d logo is a great idea, but still it’s an indirect way to do an easier task than the one that was primarily designed for the plugin. It’s kind of weird that there’s no plugin included in AE yet for a simple extrude like that.

Clint Fleckenstein, viscosity set to 0 and a high strength in the force are violent enough for me =)

[Thehardmenpath]

Hi.

I just got a nice slow motion effect by changing two simple values: Force Strength and Gravity.

With a Strength of .65 and a Gravity of 0,05 you’ll probably get a nice 20 second effect.

[Thehardmenpath]

It’s quite easy to do, but there are some things that could make the tracking look bad. For example, if the footage has a noticeable motion blur, the stabilized image will result in being still, but randomly blured.

Anyway, the process of tracking looks easy in that project and yes, it can be done. If you want to stabilize de position, open the Motion Tracker palette, activate the layer, chose stabilize motion and put the tracker you’ll see in the comp window in a place that remais still during the whole shot. Try to chose a place for the box where there’s a noticeable object (with contrast and such) and make the bigger box around it big enough to that the object in the smaller box, when the camera moves, still is entirely in the place of the bigger box.

Now press play in the tracker palette and follow the process of tracking carefully. At some points, the tracker will probably get mad and go to a place of the screen that have nothing to do with the part of the image it should be following. In that case, stop the tracking, go some frames back where it was in place and press play again. Don’t press the backwards play in those cases.

After that, just clic on apply, if you had chosen the stabilize motion control, it will directly put the keyframes in the anchor point property. As a control freak you say you are, you’ll have no problem in playing it again and again to look for places where the control didn’t work well enough and animate those keyframes manually.

Good luck!

[Thehardmenpath]

Useful, impressive, complex, educational… Great, great job, John.

[Thehardmenpath]

It’s getting hard to find out, so I am afraid I will have to deal with an easy but unelegant method: write into the script the action for just first vertex and choose “set first vertex” to the one I want to work with before running the script.

Anyway, one more question: Do you know if a script can have access to the Tracker Controls palette? It would be nice if it could activate the “analyze one frame” controls in some way.

[Thehardmenpath]

Check this out, it probably will spare you a lot of time:

https://www.aenhancers.com/viewtopic.php?t=247

[Thehardmenpath]

Check this out, it probably will spare you a lot of time:

https://www.aenhancers.com/viewtopic.php?t=247

[Thehardmenpath]

…Or activate the checkerboard control in the composition window, it’s the button next to the “Active Camera” control. It will show you the transparent backround the same way as photoshop does.

[Thehardmenpath]

I have watched the video carefuly and I believe this has been done that way:
After designing the main graphic (just the yellow line) it was separated in different objects for each line or group of lines and uncovered with masks. I can see it in some curves where the yellow appears as uncovered by a line, not a vector paint progress. Check out the lowest yellow line in the r of poetry, for example. Separating it into layers allow to change colors and moving words as they do, and blik.

All this got then probably precomposed and the effect of drop shadow was added. By the way, if you want to add several drop shadows as they did, I recomend to start with a distance of one and increase it exponentially after that, starting with 2 in the second effect, 2,4,8,16.

I presume they did something BEFORE that, they put another drop shadow with the same properties but in the opposite direction to end covering the yellow part with a full stroke line. I think
the best way to keep everything in control is with expressions, so you only have to animate the values at the first effect.

Finally, check out a little mistake (or is it?) there: Parts that are not onscreen don’t project shadows, like the line that goes over the “h” of “they” at the end. Just like the drop shadow effect does.