hugobossv8 Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 Hi, I was wondering if it's possible to animate a photo of a car like this: http://www.fordvehicles.com/cars/mustang/launch/ What steps would have to be done? (ie, import a photo of a car into animation master, animate the tire spin, somehow create the dust)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeresaNord Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 Sure that's definitely possible, but you should post this in the new users thread. You can use a car from the library and customize it or you can construct your own, and creating dust is very possible. There's lots of possibilities... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jandals Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 The car's body and tires could be made on flat patches (1 for the body and 1 for each wheel) using the photo as a cookie-cut decal. To spin the tires, just rotate the patches. The dust could be a particle emitter; sprites, streaks or a combination of the two. Exercise 10 in your Art of Animation Master book covers decals and Ex. 16 covers particles. See if those get you started. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted April 28, 2006 Admin Share Posted April 28, 2006 A:M can most definitely animate images like that. With apologies to the Ad agency that made that particular ad I submit my quick test. Second animated gif was meant to show Choreography angle but...um... its doesn't really. The dust looks like an image added in a plane in front of the other elements. You could do that via an image and transparency in A:M or go the whole distance and use particle effects or dust. Project file for this test available on request. Most of the techniques you could use can be found in the TAoA:M Exercises. I used Layers in this project though. and... no... I didn't spin the tires. The speed of the animation is slowed down for better viewing too. I may modify this and add it to the Custom Car exercise if there is any interest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Bigboote Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 http://amfilms.hash.com/search/Entry.php?entry=947 UNrelated...but still worth a looky. There's an 3D animated Mustang in there. The Ford stuff is cool. To do stuff like that learn: A) Adobe After Effects Macromedia Flash Flash, in version 8 (latest V) has taken a giant step toward becoming a 'web-video-compositor'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hugobossv8 Posted April 28, 2006 Author Share Posted April 28, 2006 http://amfilms.hash.com/search/Entry.php?entry=947 UNrelated...but still worth a looky. There's an 3D animated Mustang in there. The Ford stuff is cool. To do stuff like that learn: A) Adobe After Effects Macromedia Flash Flash, in version 8 (latest V) has taken a giant step toward becoming a 'web-video-compositor'. Thanks, I know Macromedia Flash well. But I don't know Adobe After Effects very well. I'm wondering if in the Ford movie they recorded a video of the Ford mustang, or did they use a 3d program to create the car from a photo and then edit the effects in Adobe After Effects or Adobe Premier and then ultimately export it and import it into Flash. Thanks for all the tips everyone! They are very helpful! This forum is great!!! A:M can most definitely animate images like that. With apologies to the Ad agency that made that particular ad I submit my quick test. Second animated gif was meant to show Choreography angle but...um... its doesn't really. The dust looks like an image added in a plane in front of the other elements. You could do that via an image and transparency in A:M or go the whole distance and use particle effects or dust. Project file for this test available on request. Most of the techniques you could use can be found in the TAoA:M Exercises. I used Layers in this project though. and... no... I didn't spin the tires. The speed of the animation is slowed down for better viewing too. I may modify this and add it to the Custom Car exercise if there is any interest. I would definitely be interested in seeing this in the tutorial section if you are able to duplicate all of the effects exactly as in the original. Thanks!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted April 29, 2006 Admin Share Posted April 29, 2006 I would definitely be interested in seeing this in the tutorial section if you are able to duplicate all of the effects exactly as in the original. Don't think that'll happen. That's too much like work. Contract work will cost ya $250.00 an hour. We'll see what we can do though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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