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__126
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November 3, 2017
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Amazing Plexus Effect - How is this done?

  • November 3, 2017
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hi everyone,

please can someone explain the steps to making this image? its in this YouTube video 0:17 seconds in.

Magnetic Dance - YouTube

can anyone explain the steps to making this image? its in this video at 0.09 seconds in.

https://videohive.net/item/plexus-title-2/17217295?s_rank=299

I would really appreciate any help. I've been trying for 2 days and i'm not getting any where.

thanks

emily

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Correct answer Rick Gerard

Start by typing "shape animator" in the search help field at the top right corner of AE and read the help files on shape layers and shape layer animators. Start with something simple like a hexagon and a repeater.

Getting the timing down and any animation to look great is a matter of practice. You should watch this video to see some of the principals of animation that were really perfected by Disney animators a very long time ago. These "Illusion of Life" principals apply today.

You should also consider a Lynda.com subscription. They have really good instructors for almost all things video. Subscriptions sometimes come with other memberships like Linkedin Pro so there are ways to save money and still get great training. http://lynda.com You should at least take advantage of the free trial.

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Mylenium
Mylenium
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November 3, 2017

I'm not sure what you are specifically have issues with. All I see is some basic mask stuff with repeaters and Noise Effectors thrown in. Really just a matter of animating a bunch of parameters like path completion on the circle and then scale and spacing for the clone instances.

Mylenium

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Rick GerardCommunity Expert
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November 3, 2017

As Mylenium said, most of can be duplicated with just basic shape layers with repeaters. There is some stuff, like the first screenshot, that is much easier to do if you purchase Plexus and spend the time it takes to really learn how to use the plug-in. I've been doing AE as long as there has been an AE and it took me about a week to figure out how to make Plexus do what I wanted it to do.

If you have the patience to poke at it for a very long time you can do anything that you see plexus do by hand, it's just going to take an incredible amount of work and a very long time to get anything complex done.

If you are doing something like the Magnetic Dance video make sure that you put each effect in its own comp. I have had plexus shots with over a thousand layers. 20 of those in a 5-minute comp would be insane. Cutting up a single 5 minute shot of a dance routine into 20 separate comps, building the effects in each of the separate comps, then cutting the final back together in Premiere Pro is a lot less work.

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__126Author
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November 3, 2017

thank you for the quick reply. i have the plexus plugin. i should have said, silly me!

i'm a beginner at the moment. i really love these types of geometric shapes.

Can you suggest any learning materials/tutorials please? Or a course that would teach me this kind of thing? Something to get me going.

thanks,

Emily

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