Motion Tracked Graph
- December 10, 2023
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Hey there guys,
have a project coming up next week with an effect I want to achieve - wanted to get some second thoughts on how you'd achieve this.
My client wants me to display the pressure on each ski in a ski video. The idea is a trail appears behind the two skis as they ski and the trail is left behind on the ground. Ok, this is fine! I can just draw out the trail behind him, use trim paths to make it appear, then 3d motion track to have it stick to the ground, right?
However, they also want each ski trail to have it's own graph. The graph will represent pressure on the skis. The right ski graph will rise up over time as the pressure increases, and the left ski will decrease. This will be a curved line with some waves at the top to denote smoothness. They are also asking for some kind of solid shape in the graph, so it isn't just the two lines up and down, but each graph has some form.
Usually for trails I would just draw a path and then 3d motion track, but for this one would you recommend creating the graph as a flat object then wrapping it around the path of the skiier somehow?
Also, I'm wondering where to push back and tell them that this is a bit of a complicated way to show the info perhaps? I've taken a screenshot of how it could look on the footage, seems like the lines may fall on top of each other a lot. I've also attached the footage, and a screenshot diagram of how the graphs should look.
