Animating Radar Screen

Published by on June 19th, 2006 - in After Effects, Project

When dorks like me start experimenting with effects and expressions… they come up with something like this.

It starts innocent enough. “How can I use the Polar Coordinates effect to make a radar sweep?”. Then, I start drawing in Illustrator to add some elements. Then I add some text elements using expressions. At this point, I am fully qualified as a nerd as I keep tweaking, adding waveforms, even text that uses trig functions.

What we end up with is a looping RADAR screen. I’ve also added some mysterious object approaching with a tracker object attached and some misc. text driven by X position. and its visibility coming and going with the sweep.

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4 Responses

  1. Michele Yamazaki says:

    That’s super cool, Harry!

  2. HUBOGOSS says:

    Link is broken ?

  3. Harry says:

    Sorry, I was overly cautious with my link protection on this. It should work now.

  4. HUBOGOSS says:

    Thnaks ! it works now, nice work !

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