Use Blend Shape In Transformers Logo Animation

1.Import

Be sure you have Logo and letters’ outlines.
File-Import
Find .eps file(transformer logo and letters)

2.Bevel

Surfaces menus
surfaces-bevel plus

Those options are not necessary for everyone

Letter

Bevel:
Create bevel: at end
Bevel width: 0.025
Bevel depth: -0.02
Extrude distance: -0.1
Create cap: At start
Outer bevel style: Straight Out
(If you don’t want your letters’ polygons bigger than outlines, add minus.)

Logo

Bevel:
Create bevel: at start
Bevel width: 0.035
Bevel depth: 0.02
Extrude distance: 0.1
Create cap: At end
Outer bevel style: Straight Out

Output Options(It same to letter and logo):
Output geometry: Polygons
Tessellation method: Sampling
Sampling Controls:
Along extrusion: Complete
Samples: 1
Along curve: Span
Samples: 2

3.Blend Shape

Select a Polygon – Shift + D (Duplicate-make a copy)
W-move to somewhere else
Change the copy’s Vertexes, let the polygon looks like different.
Make as many copy as you want, then make select all copies and select original polygon last.

Animation menus – Create Deformer – Blend Shape

You can control the polygon from
Window – Animation editors – Blend Shape

Do that for every part you want transform

4. Animation

When you finish all letters and logos, let’s do animation.
Now, you can move all copies out of camera.
Select all letters
Edit – Group
Make Logo group too.
Change group name in Outliner

Notice the 3 steps to do transform animation

(1) Make group animation
(2) Make Polygon animation (Move,rotate,Scale)
(3) Make Blend Shape animation

Window – Animation editors – Graph editor
Fix animation’s speed

5. Material

Go to and play next frame

This is about how to make a frame which have a Movie Clip go to play next Movie Clip frame. I called second frame is “bike”.

It is different between AS2 and AS3.

First of all. Create a new AS layer and write stop(); in frist frame. This step is same in AS2 and AS3.

second. Make a AS in the last frame of first Movie Clip.
In CS2, the code should be _level0.gotoAndPlay(“bike”);
In CS3, the code should be MovieClip(root).gotoAndPlay(“bike”);

Final Project

Because I don’t found acceptable video for my first half project, I try to do other parts of the project first.  I’m working on combine cc particle world, simple choker and liquify with mask to do transitions.  The effect looks fine for now. I’ll shoot some video for other parts in the weekend.

The problem is music, I really don’t good at music. I looking for acceptable music for my project. All the audio which I found are unsatisfactory. Maybe I need cut some parts from Daft Punk’s music. It is so hard to control tempo without sound.

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