Create An Awesome Array Of Shattering Strings
Tutorial Details
- Requirements: After Effects, and Cinema 4d
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Run Time: 36:17 min
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating
We’ll be starting in Cinema 4d to create text fragments and use XPresso to export the Mograph positional data to After Effects. From there, we’ll jump over into After Effects and use expressions to connect 3d nulls to 2d data points… We’ll also be using a macro in Microsoft Word to edit multiple lines of expressions. It doesn’t matter if you’re a Cinema 4d user or strictly an After Effects user, today’s tutorial should be something helpful for everyone!
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Great tutorial, I really like the paper-look effect.
However I think you can do everything without having to copy-paste expressions to an external editor. If you have 68 nulls in your comp, put one beam effect on a layer below. Have it reference the position of layer ‘index-68′. That will be the 68th layer above, or the first null. Then just duplicate this layer 68 times. Each of the 68 beam layers will then reference the 68 null layers above.
Jon
Jon,
I tried some different variations of your idea, but couldn’t get it to work. Please let me know if you can. I’m always interested in ways to streamline my workflow. Thanks.
Nice tutorial man.
it would be nice if u would have mentioned where to download the script since its a freebe :]
you can get the script here:
http://www.per-anders.net/w/index.php?title=Generate_nulls_on_Mograph
If anyone is looking for it.
Thanks for finding the file! I couldn’t for the life of me remember where I got it. It is a really handy file…can’t imagine working without it. Thanks again.
Isnt the mograph tracer more efficiant for creating the lines?
Chris,
Mograph tracer is awesome, but I have not been able to find a way to allow all the Mograph particles to be attached to a single point using the tracer. There may be some XPresso magic out there to make it work, but I have not discovered it yet…
Use the Ubertracer plugin….this will make the task way much easier ,,,
http://www.genemagtoto.com/c4dplugins/
Anyone know where I can get the Word macro? It doesn’t seem to be making itself very apparent or my google-fu is for shit
I found it here: http://windowssecrets.com/forums/showthread.php/110490-Replace-character-with-number-sequence
Sub AddSequence()
Dim n As Integer
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdStory
With Selection.Find
.ClearFormatting
.Text = “@”
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
Do While .Execute
n = n + 1
Selection.Text = n
Selection.Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseEnd
Loop
End With
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub
Also, all of my lines are annoyingly in front of my exploding text. I know it’s something really dumb on my end. any suggestions?
heh, figured it out. Special pass render. Knew I was missing something
The Word Macro isn’t working for me. When I click run after editing the macro for the right name to change, nothing happens.
where do i find the project file?
can u give me the main material thx!
Please help, this tutorial so necessary for my final project in university, but i cant find clone_info_hierarchy.c4d, will you help me?!