Help creating 3d line and 3d background in Motion (WITH SAMPLE CLIP)

Hi there,


I'm trying to recreate a couple of elements in the following clip:


https://youtu.be/YLHnYyG0sHg


  1. The moving line.
  2. The moving background.


I'm having trouble.


I've tried to create the line in Motion.



What I notice about the first line:


  • It looks like it is a line that has a glow effect.
  • The line itself has some blur and the tip and tail
  • It sort of tapers off
  • There's a glowing white ember at the front


The background:


  • There's the vertical lines
  • The less frequent horizontal lines
  • And the whole thing moves in space.


Can anyone help me figure out how to recreate these elements and then give me tips on how to use the camera to make them move in 3d space?


Many thanks!


Andrew

iMac 27″, macOS 14.6

Posted on Feb 16, 2025 10:57 AM

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Feb 18, 2025 3:02 PM in response to andyandy1984

You should try to get in touch with Andrew Ramsay (who created the video) and see if he would be willing to share his project file with you. There's so many different ways to try to approach something like this, and the video really doesn't last long enough to get more clues.



One way to create the "main" line is to create a small circle and Replicate it.


Start with a Circle between 11 and 12 Radius. Add 6 Feather and 100 Falloff.


Here's the Replicator settings I used:



I also added a Glint filter:



To create the background "lines", I started with a Rectangle:


Width 14

Height 780

Feather 5


Then created a long line:

Point 1: X -23887.7 Y 0

Point 2: X 2413 Y 0


Then set the outline properties:




To make multiple copies of it, I used a Clone (for the example above) - but you can use as many clones as you like.


The different shapes (main line, background lines) need to be set up in Layer order, but their Z Position values can be "emphasized" to make the separations between them more visible.


Here are the Transforms (and other Properties where used)


For Camera:



For Main Line Replicator:



For background lines 1 (main Line shape)


For background 2 (clone of background lines line)



Once you get everything set up, you'll want to animate the Main Line from left to right on X and you'll want to animate the Camera orientation.


Hope this gets you started... but check with Andrew Ramsay too.





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Help creating 3d line and 3d background in Motion (WITH SAMPLE CLIP)

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