Make Paper Blow Away

	Re: Make Paper Blow Away by david bogie on Mar 18, 2008 at 5:14:22 pm [Mike Benton] "A client has a logo that has little peices of paper above the name of the business. He wants the peices of paper to tumble, or blow our from behind the logo and then blow away. How do I animate the peices of paper to appear as if they're blowing away? Thanks in advance! " Sort of depends on how many pieces there are and if they have to do anything else like being torn apart. Forget the tear apart, that's just not practical in AE. If you have only a few, less than ten, pieces, you can apply CC Cylinder or CC Sphere to each. If the paper has different pattern on the other side, this enhances the effect, but you must learn much more about these filters to use them to combine two separate layers and then tell them to render both inside and outside layers. This is really tricky and will require lots of experimentation to get the scale and layer sizes workable. Lots of play time. And it's really confusing, you've been warned, but it's really fun. You then animate the sphere or cylinder to appear to have some wind-based ballistics. I have used this technique on falling leaves, it's lovely. But it's only practical on a reasonable number of layers. You can invert or scale or colorize copies of an original to reduce the hassle and you can use expressions to alter the ballistics of a master layer. Shatter is probably your easiest route but it ain't easy, either. bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: "For crying out loud, read the freakin' manual." Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index