Piano Key help =O

SuperFusion · Post by **SuperFusion** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:29 pm

I need some help making a piano key first start off as this:

And end up going into a straight vertical line like this:

Help is MUCH appreciated. I have Adobe Premiere 6.5 and Adobe After Effects 6.0, so help would be much appreciated in any program. I have photoshop too but I don't think that's much help. =/

bum · Post by **bum** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:14 pm

For the bars, use photoshop or gimp and create masks (you gota use the alpha channel, everything els is self explanatory). For the white bar, create the images, then name them image0000, image0001, etc. Then open as an image sequence with premier.

dokool · Post by **dokool** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:58 pm

I don't think anyone's ever going to be satisfied until Koop does up a tutorial outlining exactly how he made Euphoria.

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 3:02 am

I've done some keys

, but it's not clear to me what you're after. If you just want the bars to move upward as a group or individually, then what I would do is apply keyframed motion (settings) to the masks.

bum · Post by **bum** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 5:47 am

dokool wrote:I don't think anyone's ever going to be satisfied until Koop does up a tutorial outlining exactly how he made Euphoria.

Most of the effects in euphoria are prety easy to do. The last thing we need is n00bs making effects feel even more cliched than they allready are.

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 7:34 am

dokool wrote:I don't think anyone's ever going to be satisfied until Koop does up a tutorial outlining exactly how he made Euphoria.

Chances are good that will never happen. Besides, the clueless swarms are kinda funny.

Org Profile · Post by **Vlad G Pohnert** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 2:48 pm

dokool wrote:I don't think anyone's ever going to be satisfied until Koop does up a tutorial outlining exactly how he made Euphoria.

Are you saying we need Creators to make Euphoria II, III, IV.... Quite honselty, for changing shapes, masking provides a good solution

Vlad

SuperFusion · Post by **SuperFusion** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 4:06 pm

TaranT wrote:I've done some keys , but it's not clear to me what you're after. If you just want the bars to move upward as a group or individually, then what I would do is apply keyframed motion (settings) to the masks.

I was hoping for a more detailed explanation... ;_;

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 4:52 pm

Do you mean you need the vaguely oval shape on the left of the first shot to turn into the almost-vertical curve in the middle of the second shot?
'Cause it seems to me that that's totally unrelated to the piano keys.

SuperFusion · Post by **SuperFusion** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 5:00 pm

Exactly. And I thought that THAT was a piano key..

If anyone could offer help, it'd be much appreciated.