Quiz

[jeffphilips]

That is to difficult. I wouldn't do it that way. Plus, you cannot get the pip shape long and narrow to put in the green tube.

[Volker]

argh...

I imagine one scene with many white horizontal lines. Then you add the Ripple effect to it.
Create a scene and use this as scene 1 followed by scene 2 with the actual menu background. This background contains some blue squares, painted with Akaba. Then you can add Bluebox or Bluebox world to mix scene 1 and 2 in order to fill the blue squares with the animated white lines.

I know you didn't do it that way, but that would be a solution, I guess

This thread is fun!

CSI: Casablanca

[jeffphilips]

Very creative!! But not a very good use of your time

Hint 4, I think? It takes about 5 seconds to create. Don't over think it. It is an IP effect.
I do like the fact that this thread seems to be encouraging everyone to think of new ways to do things.

I agree, this is fun!

[TimKennelly]

Hi Jeff, coming in late here, but I see magic lights for the lighting effect and then heatwave to "animate" the "electricity" and purple circles.

[jeffphilips]

bingo! If anyone got it, I knew it would be you.
Way to Go!

[TimKennelly]

Thank you.

Nice use of an effect in a different way Jeff.

What led you to this creative use to "amp up" this IP Effect to make a practical end result like this?

[jeffphilips]

Like I mentioned, I wasn't happy with the menu as a still frame. I wanted to add some sort of movement. To me, the bars looked like some sort of a frankenstein gizmo and was calling out for electrical current moving through the pipes. The first thing I thought was, "if I only had CB paint".
I thought there had to be a way to create the effect in my rene. I just started going through all the effects and trying them out. I had never had the need to use the heatwave before.
Since then I was playing around with a logo and have used heatwave to animate hot air coming out of the nose of a cartoon bull. I first drew the hot air in akaba, then added heatwave to make the air move. I then used a transition that "moved up" to make it look as though the air was rising. I then reversed the action to make it look as though it disappeared. It is nothing hi-tech looking, but works well in the way the logo will be used. Here is the link. Once there, click on the bullcity film. http://iplayerhd.com/player/menu1.aspx