slinki
11-09-2006, 12:48 PM
Hi
I'm animating a sort bacteria .What I've done is create a shape using a mask and animated the shape for movement and then precomped it as a source for Foam. Is there a way to set a kind of initial state so that it doesn't start from a blank screen...(I know I can make the precomp longer and shift the layer in time so that it appears to start from something)and secondly can I set it so that the Foam just duplicates the shape and doesn't have any force influencing it(the shape would then just fill the screen). If this can't be done using the Foam plugin could someone maybe steer me in the right direction.
Here is a link to what I'm trying to achieve.
[www.bbcmotiongallery.com (http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com/Customer/SearchDetails.aspx?searchText=micro&type=Simple&itemId=63a4c18a-539c-4d77-b653-3822d4f2847e&page=1)]
Thank you for all replies
I'm animating a sort bacteria .What I've done is create a shape using a mask and animated the shape for movement and then precomped it as a source for Foam. Is there a way to set a kind of initial state so that it doesn't start from a blank screen...(I know I can make the precomp longer and shift the layer in time so that it appears to start from something)and secondly can I set it so that the Foam just duplicates the shape and doesn't have any force influencing it(the shape would then just fill the screen). If this can't be done using the Foam plugin could someone maybe steer me in the right direction.
Here is a link to what I'm trying to achieve.
[www.bbcmotiongallery.com (http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com/Customer/SearchDetails.aspx?searchText=micro&type=Simple&itemId=63a4c18a-539c-4d77-b653-3822d4f2847e&page=1)]
Thank you for all replies