Hasta La Motion!

Hello VFXTalk, this is another weekend composite i did in AfterEffects. Yes, i know we’ve seen many Death Stars hovering over cities before (and YouTube is full of them), but there was none over mine. So i put one there. The galactic empire reaches earth in search of some “missing droids”, with the entire armada of star destroyer cruise ships and the death star. Shot from the same lousy abandoned airport a few yards away from me house.

The only new thing about this composite is the use of expressions in After Effects which i used for the first time. Cannot escape from coding, can anyone. So the clock seen at the bottom of the video is a scripted one.

Wanna see the code. I’ve posted it in the beginners forum.
http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/weekend…8.html?t=29068

Here is the link to the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTepL1ihqEU

Thanks for watching.

Hi guys, here is a small composite i did this weekend (took a break from my busy schedule). Yup, i know we’ve seen many Death Stars hovering over cities before (but not on mine). So i put one in mine.

The new thing that i tried was using expressions for the first time to animate the clock seen in the composite. For those of you who wanna know (i dunno if this is the right forum to post it) here is how i did it:

Create black solid.
Precompose it (not necessarily, but its neat). Open the precomposed comp.
Create a Text layer.
Alt + Click the Source Text option’s stopwatch and enter the following code:

var sec = Math.floor(time);

// Mod sec by 60 else it will keep counting.
var secM = Math.floor(sec % 60);

// Function to get a double digit for numbers less than 10
function appendZeros(Number)
{
var finNum;
if(Number < 10)
{
finNum = "0" + Number;
}
else
{
finNum = Number;
}
return finNum;
}

// Replace "14" as per your choice
"14" + ":" + appendZeros(secM)

Done.

Here is the link to the composited video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTepL1ihqEU

Until next time…

http://thefoundry.s3.amazonaws.com/p…ease_Notes.pdf

HA!