Adobe After Effects - Slowly morph 2D shapes using reshape

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Slowly morph 2D shapes using reshape

esialba@yahoo.fr

2006-03-05, 6:20 pm

I need to slowly morph a 250x250 one color square into a "same size"
same color circle.

Slowly = over +/-15 mn.

I discussed this with the person I'm editing the film with and he said
that using reshape, rendering could take about 50hrs on a biproc
macintosh G5. Here are my questions :

- Does it necesarily take so long to render using reshape or is he
overlooking something?

- Can it be done using smart mask interpolation (I found this in
Google)?

- How should I do, especially organize control points so it looks best?

- Ideally, the morping shape would have a drop down shadow (ok not
really a question).

Since we're a short on time, if I don't find a better way, I thought of
superimposing the square over the circle and slowly fading the square
away so we're left with the circle. Any better workaround ideas?

Thanks a lot in advance.

Kringe

2006-03-06, 3:16 am

<esialba@yahoo.fr> wrote in message
news:1141573749.582648.318970@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Since we're a short on time, if I don't find a better way, I thought of
> superimposing the square over the circle and slowly fading the square
> away so we're left with the circle. Any better workaround ideas?

This sounds like an easy way to do it... It will remind you of Bill Bixby
though.. in the old "Incredible Hulk" TV series

> I discussed this with the person I'm editing the film with and he said
> that using reshape, rendering could take about 50hrs on a biproc
> macintosh G5. Here are my questions :

50 Hrs sounds a bit long... depends on resolution though. If I were you - I
would run an experiment one night after work.