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Tom Lener
March 21, 2018 at 9:04 pm in reply to: Greenhorn Question: deciding wether to use the camera or scaling

Thanks Mark,

I’ll do my best to share the things I learn or experience while making animations.

I noticed that many people in this forum work with real world footage, is this the right place to post also for vector animations?

Best wishes,
Tom
Tom Lener
March 21, 2018 at 7:14 am in reply to: Greenhorn Question: deciding wether to use the camera or scaling

Thank you all for sharing your knowledge!

Since my last post somehow doesn’t show up, I try again.

I decided to first set up the whole scene with animations (the tree growing, leaves gone with the wind, color change, text) and as the last step added camera zoom and movement. Because all elements are vector layers, by activating “continuously rasterize” the resolution stays perfectly sharp all the time.

This workflow was easygoing and I enables me to make changes very quickly. Compared to a recent project where I modified size and position, the camera is much more comfortable to use.

I dropped the idea with the seed because I have to get better with AE first before I am ready to use such things in production.

If you are interested, this is the final animation:
https://vimeo.com/261075023

Thank you all once again, have a nice day!
Tom
Tom Lener
March 21, 2018 at 5:44 am in reply to: Greenhorn Question: deciding wether to use the camera or scaling

Hello Mark,

thank you for your answer! You are referencing to working with “real world” footage. At the actual project, only vector layers were used. However, please post your work, sounds interesting.

Greetings,
Tom
Tom Lener
March 20, 2018 at 7:59 am in reply to: Who knows how to animate a spinning dot circle meeting at the center?

Thank you!
Tom Lener
March 20, 2018 at 7:34 am in reply to: Greenhorn Question: deciding wether to use the camera or scaling

Awesome, i can’t wait to try this! Thanks a lot!
Tom Lener
March 20, 2018 at 7:12 am in reply to: Greenhorn Question: deciding wether to use the camera or scaling

Thank you Steve, especially for the tip using nulls. I will give the camera a try.

Tom
Tom Lener
March 20, 2018 at 6:36 am in reply to: Who knows how to animate a spinning dot circle meeting at the center?

Hello Mark,

Your apt answer led me to many, many new things and techniques.
And these saved me a good amount of time already.

Although in the end, I created paths, particles and applied the roughen edges effect and got this:

https://vimeo.com/260894680

This technique might not be very efficient, however, I am quite happy with the result.

Thank you once again.

Tom
Tom Lener
March 17, 2018 at 3:49 pm in reply to: Who knows how to animate a spinning dot circle meeting at the center?

Thank you for the hint, i will learn about this .

Tom