SOS with Brief Animation
by David Shaw
on
Jul 8, 2008 at 11:00:16 pm
I've been trying to specifically animate a flourish that was created in Photoshop.
The idea is that there is a person onscreen, holding an object, and the flourish is supposed to sprout out of the object as the person turns around. In addition to the growth of the flourish, I have to create a 3D effect, using the camera (I believe). The entire sequence will be 10 seconds maximum.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Should I use a null object in this case to enable the camera? What might be the more effective way?
Re: SOS with Brief Animation by Jacob Wessler on Jul 9, 2008 at 12:06:55 am
David,
Here's one possible approach:
You need to track your footage - either with AE's tracker, or a 3rd party tracker (whatever you can afford!)
Once that's done, apply the tracking data to a null object - you can now parent all other layers to that null object and have them follow the rotation etc.
Create a new composition for your flourish - create it from vector art from Illustrator (or other program) or use one of Andrew Kramer's Evolution pieces (www.videocopilot.net). These things are awesome and totally worth the money!!
As for camera movements, it's easiest to use null objects (again, see Andrew Kramer for help Tutorial #54)
