Today we looked at the title sequence from “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang”
We decided to try and duplicate the animation of growing plants that are in the title sequence. Firsly we had to design the vine, this was done in Adobe Illustrator. We placed each leaf and the stem on different layers and imported it as a cropped composition into after effects. The first thing we had to do was put the leaves in the right order on the timeline. We did this and then named each one. To make the stem seem like it was growing upwards, we used a stroke effect with the setting “reveal original image”. We copied the path from illustrator and pasted it to a new mask on the stem layer. We then set the stroke effect to draw along this mask. Next we had to make the leave look like they were growing. We did this by placing each leaves anchor point where it joined the stem. We then selected all of them and key-framed the scale. We then moved each set of leaves to start growing when the stem got to their anchor points.
We then precomposed this and placed many of them around the 3d space. We then added a light and a background to show the shadows of each vine growing.
Next we pre-composed the vines and places more of the groups of vines to grow around the space to give the impression of hundreds of vines growing at once. We animated a camera to move around the vines to add motion and interest to the animation.
