Archive for June, 2009

3D Flag Examples

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

It’s been a while, but we’ve included a new series of example projects and movies for 3D Flag!

Open up customizable banners, pirate flags, curtains and more! Visit our Examples page to download all the new project files, as well as view all the project animations.

Click on the picture above to go to our Examples page.

3D Flag is a plug-in for After Effects CS4, Motion 3, and Premiere Pro 2.0.

For more information on 3D Flag, visit the 3D Flag Details page.

3D Serpentine Example Movies

Friday, June 12th, 2009

We’ve added a new page on the 3D Serpentine web page that contains all the example movies. In the Examples page, now you can view all the 3D Serpentine animations to see all the exciting capabilities.

Click on the picture above to go to our Examples page.

Update: 3D Serpentine 1.0.1

Monday, June 8th, 2009

3D Serpentine 1.0.1 contains many new example projects as well as new features to make smoother animated ribbons, banners, and more!

Version 1.0.1 Update:

- New Feature – By creating an animated mask, the 3D Serpentine body will transition from one shape to the next (Mac & Windows).

- Improved Auto-Orientation tool. The “Based on Curvature” Auto-Orientation has been improved to handle advanced curves better. This takes care of issues where the path may twist when the extrusion offset is animated to go through multiple loops (Mac & Windows).

- Improved texture mapping. Map coordinates using Lock Map to Path and Not Locked to Path react better to complex curves (Mac & Windows).

- Fixes an issue where increasing the Path Smoothness values may introduce new twists to the path (Mac & Windows).

- Fixes an issue where if you start a curve with the handle bar pointing vertically, you may see a twist in the beginning of the path (Mac & Windows).

- Fixes an issue where the texture map isn’t mapped completely, and also calculates shading better when using the “Line” Custom Section Shape (Mac & Windows).

- Fixes an issue where the texture map tiling could be reversed if there is scaling applied on the path (Mac & Windows).

- Fixes an issue where multiple custom shape masks in the same layer could cause a missing seam in the serpent body (Mac & Windows).

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