From the course: After Effects Breakdowns: N-Trig Commercial

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Adding geometric lines with Plexus

Adding geometric lines with Plexus

From the course: After Effects Breakdowns: N-Trig Commercial

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Adding geometric lines with Plexus

- [Voiceover] If you'll pay attention to the animation that happens when the strokes create the pen shape, you'll notice that at the same time when objects are drawing on the screen, we have this geometric shape forming on top of the DNA structure. This shape fire a particle laser beam which forms yet another shapes with extra lines. This mix of shapes were done using few Plexus layers and some have form Particular and Form, of course. In this movie, I want to walk you through the process of creating these animations. But before I start, I just want you to pay attention to the graphic language. It's tempting to create these formations and explosion using real footage. But when you design something which consists of wireframes and lines, you should stay in the same language and the same environment, even if the scripts call for fancy explosion or some sort of a core reactor explosion. And this is what I like in this commercial, everything is expressed using the same design language…

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