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Preditor Corbett
Preditor Corbett
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It's Raining Money, So I Got Problems

Jul 15, 2012 6:45 PM

I have created money by scaning actual dollars front and back > cleaning it up in PS > placing the front and back sides into a pre-comp so that it can spin it around in random ways.

So like a nfl star in a strip club, I gotta make it rain.

 

I have red giant almost everything, and before i get started i wanted to know whether Red Giant can make this easier than create the naturally falling money.

Natural falling money bends bases on drag coeffieience and it als some time spins on one of its axis. No 2 fall the same.

 

to make this worse it has to land and settle on the floor (not 100% neccessary but i would really like that).

 

Tools:

AE CS5 ( It is a part of my Masters Suite)

Red Giant Ultimate Suite (bought may 2011)

C4D

 

What would be the easiest way to complete this effect?

867 Views   6 Replies   Latest reply: BenMarkus, Jul 16, 2012 1:28 PM
 
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  • Andrew Yoole
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    1. Andrew Yoole,
    Jul 15, 2012 8:26 PM   in reply to Preditor Corbett
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    Trapcode Particular will allow to you generate particle-based money that can fall and rotate.  You will need to seperately animate any bend/distortion in the notes in a precomp, possibly with animated Bezier Warp distortions or CC Twister, for example.  This can then be precomped and use as the particle source for Particular. You can create as many variant bill animations as you like, but make sure they are each the same duration so you can precomp them in series before using them as your particle source.

     

    There's a clunky example at Red Giant People which may help to get you started.

     
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    2. Preditor Corbett,
    Jul 15, 2012 9:57 PM   in reply to Andrew Yoole
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    Is there a way to incorporate stimulation like gravity or attching something to the speed ot the fall, that could suggest the way to effect the bezier?

     

    Sort of like tags can do in C4D.

     
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  • Mylenium
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    3. Mylenium,
    Jul 15, 2012 10:08 PM   in reply to Preditor Corbett
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    No. You can't control such stuff inside any of the particle systems. The deformations will have to be built in the pre-comp for the custom particle.

     

    Mylenium

     
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    4. Preditor Corbett,
    Jul 16, 2012 10:27 AM   in reply to Mylenium
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    This is sounding more like the long method. LOL

     

    Ok. Can you do a weighted gravity point on a single bill?

     

    I have already started on keyframing some bends this morning and i will probaly need 21 separate animations to make it look organic. I m gonna do but was hoping for a miricle. 

     
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  • Dave LaRonde
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    5. Dave LaRonde,
    Jul 16, 2012 10:36 AM   in reply to Preditor Corbett
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    Many particle systems do have a gravity setting, but I don't if it would be extremely helpful in your case. 

     

    Despite Galileo's proof that gravity effects all objects equally despite their masses, you're dealing with folding cash -- which tends to behave like a tiny airfoil -- and not ball bearings, which are largely unaffected by the atmosphere.

     
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  • BenMarkus
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    6. BenMarkus,
    Jul 16, 2012 1:28 PM   in reply to Preditor Corbett
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    Someone asked something very similar on a thread last month.  Andrew gave some pointers on using CC Particle Systems as well, so you might want to check and see if anything there is helpful.

     

    http://forums.adobe.com/message/4522533#4522533

     
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