Today we looked at the title sequence from “Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium” We decided to recreate the paper plane animation that was at the beginning of the sequence. We did this by firstly creating a composition of a 3D paper plane. We did this by creating masked solid layers that were she shape of each fold of paper. We then lined them up to create a 3D replica of a paper plane. One We then attatched all the sides with a Null object so they could be easily animated.
We then took that composition and animated it in a 3D space to make it look like it was flying. We had to spend some time getting the keyframes right so we it looked natural. It still need a bit more work.
We then wanted to add the dotted line trail behing the plane. We did this using a stroke effect and drawing a mask that followed the planes journey.
To make it work as a title sequence, we then added some very simple text to the animation. We first pre-composed what we had done so far and enabled the time remapping. We there then able to simple add a freeze frame. We then key framed the position and scale parameters of the pre-composed animation to give the impression of a zoom in. We added some text to it, and parented these text layers to the plane composition. This made the text stcik to the plane and follow it when it was animated. We then key framed the text to fade in as it came closer.
