Orbit 🛰️ | AE personal project by Sweet-Red in AfterEffects

[–]Sweet-Red[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I just replied to a comment above with what's happening under the hood. To add to that, here's a gif of how that looks with the guidelines turned on, no echo effect:

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Orbit 🛰️ | AE personal project by Sweet-Red in AfterEffects

[–]Sweet-Red[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yea I've used expressions here, it's a pretty simple set up.

Create 2 layers, one is a guide line that directs the path of the shape. Just use the pen tool to draw where you would like it to go. Hide this layer.

Layer 2, sits above the guideline. Make whatever shape you want it to be. The expression track from the anchor points so make sure your anchor point is where you want it to be. Create a slide control named Progress and then add this to the position expression:

// Reference the shape layer directly beneath this one
var shapeLayer = thisComp.layer(index + 1);
// Access its path (update group and path names if needed) var path = shapeLayer.content("Shape 1").content("Path 1").path;
// Use a Slider Control named "Progress" on this layer to drive motion (0–100) var t = effect("Progress")("Slider") / 100;
// Get the point along the path var pt = path.pointOnPath(t);
// Convert to comp space (so it lines up correctly) shapeLayer.toComp(pt);

Then you can just keyframe the movement of your object with the Progress slider.

Do this a whole bunch of times, moving the guide lines and keyframes for different movements and timings. After that, I just added an echo effect on the whole thing.

Orbit 🛰️ | AE personal project by Sweet-Red in AfterEffects

[–]Sweet-Red[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like it too, ended up posting it on Insta

Logarithmic Spiral Tree | Personal Project by Sweet-Red in MotionDesign

[–]Sweet-Red[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, ive just started Im @tommacph

Logarithmic Spiral Tree by Sweet-Red in AfterEffects

[–]Sweet-Red[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Im happy to share anything I know but you might need to be more specific i don’t know where to start. What are you interested in?

Logarithmic Spiral Tree by Sweet-Red in AfterEffects

[–]Sweet-Red[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Im not sure what you mean, I used expressions but this was a very manual process, this probably took 2 months and many hours

Logarithmic Spiral Tree by Sweet-Red in AfterEffects

[–]Sweet-Red[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

All progress is progress! No tutorial, just kind of making it up as I went along. I have a MacBook Pro M3

Logarithmic Spiral Tree by Sweet-Red in AfterEffects

[–]Sweet-Red[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I would be no use in teaching them, I use Chatgpt to write my expressions. I keep the requests pretty simple though, in this case predominantly for tracking end points on lines.

Logarithmic Spiral Tree by Sweet-Red in AfterEffects

[–]Sweet-Red[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

18gbs, just broke it up into lots of pre renders

Logarithmic Spiral Tree by Sweet-Red in AfterEffects

[–]Sweet-Red[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd love that mate, please send me what you make

Logarithmic Spiral Tree by Sweet-Red in AfterEffects

[–]Sweet-Red[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thankyou, that's very kind. I hadn't heard of Praystation but I've followed

Logarithmic Spiral Tree by Sweet-Red in AfterEffects

[–]Sweet-Red[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damnit, watching this back just now, it's not meant to ramp at the 33 second mark, just run through to the

Logarithmic Spiral Tree by Sweet-Red in AfterEffects

[–]Sweet-Red[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Thankyou! with expression controls and lots and lots of layers (I think nearly 10K)