Jun 19
Animating Radar Screen
Posted on Monday, June 19, 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.
DOWNLOAD THE PROJECT FILES HERE
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That’s super cool, Harry!
Link is broken ?
Sorry, I was overly cautious with my link protection on this. It should work now.
Thnaks ! it works now, nice work !