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

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Intro to Form

Intro to Form

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

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Intro to Form

- In this chapter, we'll take a close look at the final steps of the animation that forms a digiatal pen schematic. This will complete the transition from paper to digital in this digital pen commercial done by Studio STAF from Tel Aviv. Since we are forming the shape of the pen, we start by exploring a brother effect of Trapcode Particular which goes by the name of Form. Form is also a particle system generator, but the main difference that is that particles are always visible, meaning they don't have a life option. They are simply there all the time. Now Form is also based on a 3D grid that you can bend and twist in order to create stunning fluid motion animations. You can also drive the particles by several options, such as core maps and layer maps, and if this is not enough, everything can be tied to an audio file, so it can also auto-animate using any audio that you place on the timeline. Now I'm not going to cover this plugin from start to end, but rather show you a quick…

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