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Day 8 – Epic as

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I knew what I was going to do today. I had recently seen a tutorial by ECAbrams (definitely check out his tutorials) that bound lines to track points in moving footage and used this as a text reveal. I have always wanted to pull off this effect and so I dove in very excitedly. I’ll admit, I gave the tutorial another squizz before searching for my footage (again found on Pixabay) and opening the comp. I also excluded the time 3D Camera was analysing and mapping the footage, which is fair, I was just sitting there waiting and it took precious minutes. In the tutorial Abrams used Plexus, which I have not made the leap to purchase, I opted for using Beam effect to build the lines and a couple expressions to anchor each end.

The results…

Day 8 - Epic Shot
Day 8 – Epic Shot

Read more about the #15minmograph challenge and check out past day.

Vanishing Points

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Now this one is cool. Yet another Learning Day and I was sitting on the couch scrolling through my phone, catching up on Facebook before I head into the study to pick a something from my learning list. I scroll past a Premium Beat post (Simulating Depth Using Vanishing Points in After Effects) I didn’t know what much of it meant to I kept scrolling, the only thing that made me scroll back was that it was Learning Day and it seemed a shame to not have a quick squiz.

I was a little bit blown away by how good the result was with such a small amount of effort, so I gave it a go (results above). When I showed my husband he was quite blown away and so even he watched the tutorial. I will definitely be hanging on to this technique for the future.

As always a smart, straight forward and very useful tutorial from Premium Beat, keep it up Canucks.

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