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Bruzer85
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February 26, 2020
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Morphing Pre compositions

  • February 26, 2020
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I have 2 pre compositions and I want to morph one into the other.  From what I have found on google, it looks like you are only able to morph PNG or vector images.  This won't work for what I'm trying to do.  I have a logo and a ukulele in their own precomps,  because the Ukulele is in layers and has an animated overlay on the body, and the logo has 2 overlays on different layers within it.  I'm wondering if there is a way to morph the uke comp into the logo comp

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Mylenium
Mylenium
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February 26, 2020

"Real morphing" is a pixel-based process that doesn't care what sources are used. it would work just fine. You're just out of luck that pretty much the only genuine morphing effect included in AE, Reshape, doesn't deal with animated sources and pretty much only allows for a single direct transition from shape A to shape B with no fancies, meaning if you are serious about the matter you may need to buy costly extra plug-ins. However, if all your stuff is custom created and you have full control over it, there could be a million ways to transition from the ukulele to the logo using individually animated shapes, pareticle effects to "explode" and reassemble layers and of course other effects to create nice transitional animations. Real morphing is rarely ever required for such stuff and typically is used more for VFX than logos (unless you go of course for the cheesy 80s look of morphing your favorite heavy metal band logo into a demon face).

 

Mylenium

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Bruzer85Author
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February 26, 2020

Thanks man, I am a little amature-ish to the whol thing (been working on odd projects in my spare time for a few years) essentially I have a round logo, and ideally would like to add maybe a motion blur to it, and have it spin around and becom the ukulele.  and yes, I do own all the part of my project (With exception perhaps of the overlays, they are taken from a youtube video of splatter effects)

Mylenium
Mylenium
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February 26, 2020

Well, if you already plan on using heavy motion blur, the obvious answer might be that you

 

  • animate the ukulele's body and the logo circle to heavily rotate at some point
  • somewhere inbetween scale them to match in size and mutually cross fade
  • perhaps add a radial blur/ spin blur to emphasize the effect (similar to the old Batman series logo spin)

 

Then it's merely a matter of figuring out the right timing and letting the other elements like the ukulele bar fly off and fly the logo text in. If you get my meaning: More a design problem than a technical problem. Another idea could be to reveal the logo as if zooming in through the hole of the ukulele as if inspecting the manufacturer's sticker. so many ideas. Most definitely I think morphing should be the last thing on your mind.

 

Mylenium

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