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Animating Radar Screen

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

posted by Harry @ 6/19/2006 10:45:00 AM |  

4 Comments:

At Monday, June 19, 2006 3:38:00 PM, Michele Yamazaki said...

That's super cool, Harry!

 
At Tuesday, June 20, 2006 12:15:00 AM, HUBOGOSS said...

Link is broken ?

 
At Tuesday, June 20, 2006 8:05:00 AM, Harry said...

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

 
At Wednesday, June 21, 2006 12:01:00 AM, HUBOGOSS said...

Thnaks ! it works now, nice work !

 

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