Make your own iPod nano commercial
Creative Cow has posted a video tutorial detailing how you can create those light trails featured in Apple's latest iPod commercial. Be forewarned that the tutorial is using the Windows version of After Effects, but the same technique should yield similar results on the Mac version.Andrew was even kind enough to include the source files, so you really have no excuse for not adding these streaks to all your home movies, and any client work you have to do.
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Creative Cow has posted a video tutorial detailing how you can create those light trails featured in Apple's latest iPod commercial. Be...
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"Actually this is much easier to replicate using Motion, which was probably used for the comercial anyway"
Motion has extremley limited uses when it comes to comps like this. Sure, its great and quick for proof-of-concept but lacks any serious scripting/tweaking controls found in after effects. The price alone should show you that AE is a serious compositing application. This particular spot was created in AE, C4D and has had been finished in Shake.
Again, motion is great but not nearly as sophisticated as AE. Motion is also not capable of 3D, therefor limiting its uses for any serious compositing.
Martin: http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2006/10/18/5665
(strangely, I've already installed this screensaver on my PeeCee (work) butnot on my Mac (home)).
Wow. How about an art history lesson?
Picasso anyone?
http://pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=227&ptp_photo_id=syn:life:121346&size=320x320_mb
Yes, there was art BEFORE comic books.
Actually this is much easier to replicate using Motion, which was probably used for the comercial anyway
October 18 2006 at 3:00 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAnyone saying Apple stole this from a comic and not from what one constantly sees at raves and dance clubs is really stretching.
October 18 2006 at 1:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIt's After Effects, not After Effect :).
October 18 2006 at 12:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI didn't realize that Paul Pope invented light streaks
October 18 2006 at 11:24 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyStep 1: Steal the look from a 2002 Paul Pope comic:
http://homepage.mac.com/merussell/PaulPopeTHB.gif
how would you go about setting this as a screensaver? how cool would that be?!
October 18 2006 at 10:13 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWell the fact that After Effects has an RRP of almost $699 seems a good excuse to me...
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