Rubik's Cube


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Rubik's Cube
by accpph on Feb 22, 2007 at 5:54:57 pm

A while ago some folks posted about how to do a Rubik's Cube with 3D layers in after effects. I've worked on this every so often since that posting but am now far along enough to share it. Any criticisms would be appreciated.

ACC

Here's the animation

http://www.rit.edu/~accpph/media/Rubiks_final.wmv

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Re: Rubik's Cube
by honion on Feb 22, 2007 at 6:04:11 pm

Hello fellow RIT alum :) The clip looks good, the next thing to try might be a version that is non-transparent/floating blocks but to make it black in between like a real rubik's.

Good work!

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Re: Rubik's Cube
by bogiesan on Feb 22, 2007 at 11:10:22 pm

I am in awe. Very cool 3D work. I can't do that.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: "For crying out loud, read the freakin' manual."

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Re: Rubik's Cube
by accpph on Feb 25, 2007 at 1:52:14 am

bogiesan:

Yes you can!!! I did it in a very, very brute-force kinda way. Various people posted more elegant scripted versions but basically I created photoshop squares, prearnaged them in PS for each layer, imported all layers as a composition. I created null buffers and parented them to buffers according to color.

I set them all to 3D layers and then re-parented appropriate squares to one of three buffers. These would then rotate. After each rotations, I dupliacted the comp and killed the keys keepoing the new positions. I reparented for the orientation that the new comp would work along (vertical vs. horizontal) and re-oriented.

Repeat till yer done!

I then lined all the comps up in a final precomp and I was done.

You CAN do it.

Good luck

ACC

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Re: Rubik's Cube
by RossGerbasi on Feb 23, 2007 at 3:52:30 pm

As another RIT alum I had to chime in. Looks nice. Would be cool to see it filled in like a real rubik's cube, but I am sure thats gonna be even more hell. :)

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Re: Rubik's Cube
by accpph on Feb 25, 2007 at 1:58:30 am

Ross, Honion!

What year were you guys? Thaks for the posts. Here's the weird thing. It never occured to me to do the cube filled in. I deliberatley wanted to see through it b/c I thought it looked cool. I'm kinda busy now since I teach at RIT (Yeah, I never left...) but very well and so be it: the next version I do will be totaly filled in.

Thanks for the suggestions I hope I figure out how to pull it off.

Best

Aharon Charnov

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