Blog by Eran Stern » Form http://www.sternfx.com/blog Motion Graphics, Special Effects and Personal Thoughts Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:01:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Disco Tunnel Effect Using Form http://www.sternfx.com/blog/index.php/10-2009/disco-tunnel-using-form/ http://www.sternfx.com/blog/index.php/10-2009/disco-tunnel-using-form/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:22:25 +0000 Eran Stern http://www.sternfx.com/blog/?p=514 DiscoTunnelFormA month ago, in cooperation with Creative COW, I published the Color Link tutorial. This tutorial has 2 purposes. The first is, of course, to show you the use of the color link effect to match colors between shots, but what seems to catch most viewers eyes is the Disco Tunnel effect I’ve set up, using the new Wiggle Transform operator, available in CS4.
Since then, I’ve received many requests from people still using CS3 or even AE7, asking how to recreate the same effect without the Wiggle Transform operator.
I thought about it and couldn’t come up with a simple way to achieve the same look using only the built in features of the After Effects. However, if you own Trapcode Form, it’s a matter of minutes to recreate it. Well, this was my answer to most of you guys, but it seems that people can’t figure what to do even if they have all the ingredients on the table, so for all of the frustrated dancers out there – here’s my recipe for the Disco Tunnel effect using trapcode form.
I’ve also uploaded both projects (CS3 and CS4) for you to explore.
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There’s no doubt that my Digits Man tutorial was one of the most viewed tutorial, but some people encountered an error when they tried to fill the screen with more than 7000 characters. This is probably due to a bug or some strange behavior in After Effects. So I’ve recorded a new Tutorial on Creative COW called Digits Man Revisited which shows a different approach to the same effect using Trapcode Form plug-in. It will first come out as a podcast version and a week later will be available in Hi-Res quality. I’m sure you’ll enjoy it as much as it was making it.

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