Hey guys,
I want to do something similar to this old Continuums open credit animation. The material and particle FX should be straightforward, but the cutting aspect might be difficult. I'm not a super power user.
It looks like the pre-made text fades in so that is not so bad, but what is the best way to make the beam trace out the letters to fake the "cutting"? I'm going to simulate an actual CO2 laser cutting steel and using the red reference beam. The laser will be in some sort of a gimbal apparatus.
I can't find any decent tutorials on the techniques.
Thanks ahead of time...
ftp://ftp.hash.com/pub/movies/continuums.mov