AE internal plug-ins to create the effect of Taiji animation

Dynamic lifelike, lifelike, with oriental charm of Taiji animation expressed the Chinese people's confidence in the success of the Olympic Games, Beijing,i am coming (BEIJING, I came!) ) express the expectations and aspirations of the world's best young people for the Olympic Games. Let's take a look at the animation effect chart first.

Animation effect Chart

In this animation effect, we use after effect's built-in plug-in vector paint special effects to achieve the Taiji animation effect, vector paint plug-in is a powerful vector drawing tool, it can be on the layer to draw any color or shape of the line, and record the painting process of these lines in real time, and then replay them.

First, create the material

1, run Photoshop, open the prepared material Tai Chi ring picture, as shown in Figure 1:

Figure 1 Pre-prepared footage

2, the material processing, using lasso tool to split the Taiji ring into 5 separate pictures, note that in the split time must not change the location of the picture, and the picture format must be saved in the PNG format, as shown in Figure 2.

Fig. 2 Dividing the Taiji ring into 5 separate pictures

Second, the creation of Taiji animation

1, run after Effect6.5 video editing software, set up a composite file COMP1, set as follows: Preset (preset): NTSC 648x486 (wide x high); Pixel Aspect (percentage of pixels): Square Ratio; Resolution (resolution): Full;duration (duration): 35S; background color is white.

2. Import material picture

Double-click the blank area of project to import the 5 footage you prepared above, because the 5 pictures are transparent layers and the picture position has not changed, the effect of the synthesis is shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3 Importing footage in AE