The ability to teach is a special art. Dear Manuel, you define and implement the educational plan with great care and patience. Thank you very much for your knowledge
Hi Manuel, awesome tutorial. I followed along and struggled at this part 4:48, because I was following you visually, but the position of the nulls in your case was different from mine, according to the first vertex. Also I created my rectangles in a different position and the generated nulls weren't where they should be, then I found out I had to zero the path position in the transform:path before applying the Create Nulls From Paths. Working with Shapes is tricky, there are a lot of issues that we only solve by practicing.
Hi Alex! Thanks very much! You're right! It's tricky, but once you used it for a bit, u get used to it. I made always create new shapes by double-clicking on the shape tools and then resize the path. This makes sure everything is centred. For me that works well.
@@ManueldoesMotion it turns out that a similar script is already built into after effects, and I was thinking where to find a similar plugin that would allow you to control the points!
why when i create null from path and i choose points follow nulls , the rectangle of the nulls is big and away from the point or the vertex ? how to fix that ? thank you
I feel ya. I've tried Ableton, Reaper, even shelled out for Cubase and I am no closer to understanding any of tNice tutorials than I was before. I don't
I duplicated the cyan solid and moved it above the big centre circle. Increased its mask and used it as inverted luma matte for the centre solid to create negative space between the two shapes.
@@ManueldoesMotion Awesome, thank you! I am learning so much from your channel. Do you have any advice on creating a reel for a portfolio? I would love to hear any suggestions you may have!
The Nulls form in the right pattern (at 4 points around a square) but they're not connected to the square shape. They're off-set despite the anchor point being centered to the shape. It's really odd as my colleague sat next to me can do it straight away on another machine. Is it something in my settings/preferences?
When you were choosing a fill color for your shape layer, why were the color choices limited? Mine has the entire color range. Is there a setting that can let us choose a range of colors to make a color palette?
If you notice it enough, you can see he's using red channel to generate colours while yours is probably on H or Hue for short. There are some clickable points on the left of the values click on them and you will see it. Idk if I made it harder to understand or not but theres that xD youre welcome!
I'm trying to make a logo reveal using a modified version of the "cube" at 2:18. I cannot find a method to get a text layer to adhere to the null controls so that the proper perspective is maintained. Any ideas?
I think that’s tough because the perspective is just fake 3D. If you want to add a text layer I would probably create a real 3D cube with 3D layers and attach the text layer to one side of it.
I figured it out. Precomp text layer, crop the new comp to the size of the text layer, add CC Powerpin to precomped text layer, parent powerpin points to the nulls. It's a little clumsy, but it works!
I don't get it when you showed me the null follow points part... Why are my nulls not automatically putting right on the points after i convert to beizer? WHAT THE HELL.... it suppose to be place right on path points but its located in the bottom. wtf.
That happens when your anchor point isn't in the centre of your shape. Before converting the path into a bezier path you should centre your anchor point. That's why I double-click on the rectangle tool. It automatically centres the anchor point. In the After Effect settings in "General" you can also activate: "Centre Anchor point in new shape layers"
