Hey Guys still need to go through the fundamentals of animation course, but I've finished the motion graphics course and I'm doing my own logo animation.
I'm thinking of doing a laser cutting animation and I found a tutorial but the guy goes about it as manually pathing all the animation and I'm just thinking there must be other more efficient ways to go about it like using materials with a rotating vector or animated masks or maybe there's some addon to automate pathing or something Idk. lmk if you guys have any tips or tricks or other methods you'd do this effect with.
Hey Wayne,
Can't show the logo cause the work is for my company who won't allow anything to be shown work in progress. I'm basically trying to animate a laser cutting through a black metal sheet in the same way as a laser cutter machine would. The tutorial link I put above shows the effect I'm after I was just trying to figure out if there's a faster way to go about it than creating individual paths one at a time and then making new objects and setting constraints to all of them it just seems slow.
Hi Sam,
There may very well not be an easier/automated way to do this.
It might be possible, to create a Tool in Geometry Nodes, that just cuts through everything in 'real time', but that would be quite advanced (and far beyond my current capabilities) and more work, than doing this by hand. But then again, you could give away, or sell that Tool, to people that would like to be able laser cut everything.
I haven't watched the whole Tutorial you linked to, so maybe there would be a slight speed-up possible for specific use-cases (like yours), but it really sounds like a mostly manual job to me.
Sometimes things that seem like they should be easy, are actually quite hard in computer graphics.
Sorry Wayne, not NDA'd but the company wouldn't like it If I showed, could get me a disciplinary.
