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- Joined: Mon Apr 30, 2018 11:16 am
- Real Name: Richard Stewart
I found a pretty nice way of doing it but it's not ideal.
I've used the paint tool with a polyline stroke for each long cable that connects from pillar to pillar. In the paint tools brush controls I've used the "Image" Brush shape and used the "star_4sides" Brush.
To track to the footage I used a simple tracker with 2 tracking points, one on each pillar. I even got this to work with the pillars that went off the screen.
BUT!!! What drove me crazy and I would really love someone to help me out here...
I could not for the life of me figure out how to animate the beziers on the polyline strokes, or even just the location of the verts on the polyline stroke. I had to animate the center of the polyline stroke and then use the grid warp to deform it to follow the change of perspective.
Please if anyone knows how to animate beziers on a polyline stroke in the paint tool please let me know if this is possible.
You can see my result here if you are interested. To add the long vertical lights I duplicated the main lights and added a long vertical blur.
Looking forward to animating a polyline stroke
Cheers