Re: Old label style by Mike Clasby on Aug 18, 2008 at 7:09:11 pm in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum Maybe easiest to haunt the thrift store/rummage sales and buy an old label maker, then film that.
Or... I just Googled Label Maker and got this site. Just type in your word and it makes it onscreen, then copy the gif...
Re: Shell Casing Effect by Mike Clasby on May 4, 2008 at 6:24:34 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum There's a freebie long magnum cartridge here:
http://www.detonationfilms.com/SpentBrassChroma.html
No pistol I know uses that, but for a small fee they sell auto-pistol cartridge footage....
Re: Random layer position constrained by another layer's alpha by Mike Clasby on Feb 27, 2008 at 12:31:24 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Oh, I see what you're trying to do.
Yes, you probably can, err, maybe Dan can, ask over at the Cow Expression Forum:
http://forums.creativecow.net/viewforum/227
I think if you combine this position expression from Colin:
minX = 0;//Minimum x depth value
maxX = 1000;//Maximum...
Re: Making a camera follow an object by Mike Clasby on Apr 24, 2008 at 9:54:04 am in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum Here are two post on Camera move, using Nulls to control the AE Camera:
This post by Chris Smith on how he uses Nulls with camera movements:
http://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=878237
Here is an AE project file (aep) for a nifty camera...
Re: making text bounce by Mike Clasby on Apr 24, 2008 at 9:54:16 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum I found the no-creeping version for when you have an initial x velocity (thanks to the cow for tuning up the Search engine). If you change the last line of Dan's to this:
[position[0] + Vx0*(-Math.pow(2,-time) +1), floor - y]
Then you...
Re: Change particle type by Mike Clasby on Apr 24, 2008 at 9:54:26 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum 1) You can do it with something like CC Particle World, by dropping your image you want to be a particle into a comp the size of your final comp, name it something like "My Particle" then put that in...
Re: Animating text in 3D by Mike Clasby on Apr 24, 2008 at 9:55:14 am in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum Here are three ways for 3D Text in ae:
1) Invigorator. Here's a link from the "Look Here First" thread (above):
http://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=881579
2) Quick and Dirty. Not that dirty really. For a quickie that looks fine unless you...