workflow ? - animate a string that morphs into a handful of shapes


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workflow ? - animate a string that morphs into a handful of shapes
by jonas espinoza on Sep 15, 2009 at 11:24:31 pm

hi there

am trying to brainstorm a process for a job

they want to have a line write on straight across the screen, and morph into various shapes.

in AE, am i looking at just animating a mask that i texture with a brushy luma mask? the compositing part is not scary, but am just not sure how to best animate this line to turn into different shapes/words

thanks

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example
by jonas espinoza on Sep 16, 2009 at 1:19:19 am

something like this

[URL=http://img38.imageshack.us/i/examplev.jpg/][IMG]http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/3761/examplev.th.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

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Re: workflow ? - animate a string that morphs into a handful of shapes
by Anushka Nanayakkara on Sep 16, 2009 at 9:59:50 pm

I dont know if this is what you are looking for , but I came across this video tutorial about morphing shapes

http://library.creativecow.net/articles/stern_eran/Paint_Strokes_Morph.php

:)

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Re: workflow ? - animate a string that morphs into a handful of shapes
by scott novasic on Sep 22, 2009 at 10:00:33 pm

I think that tutorial is nice for one type of look. I could not view your sample, but I would use trapcode 3d stroke. It gives you a lot of unique options on top of simply morphing your path. If you animate your
path(s) carefully you can go from shape to shape and animate secondary motion as well.

SuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
web:http://web.mac.com/finaleffects

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