Zax's Hot Tips

"Sound impossible? It used to be, but it's not anymore. The Invigorator is a streamlined production factory that can help you through the tightest jams.

"Doing 50 3D animations in a single day actually happened to one of our users in Buenos Aires. He got the job of creating titles for the players in a national soccer tournament. The Invigorator made it so fast and easy he could do full 3D animated titles as quickly as 2D.

"Here's how..."

Step 1 - He laid out the artwork with each element on a different layer in Illustrator. First name, Last name, Team, Playing Position, and several design elements were each placed on their own layers.

Step 2 - He then set up the animation in After Effects using the Invigorator to create and animate the 3D models. Each piece fell into position one at a time, spinning and building the player's title in an eye-catching 3D way. The first animation was now done.

Step 3 - Now you get to redo the same work over and over for the rest of the titles. This is NOT FUN in a big way. In fact, doing large quantities of 3D titles is such a pain that you usually skip 3D entirely and go straight to 2D. Right? Well the Invigorator has changed all that.

Step 4 - To do each of the other animations all our guy did was change the text in the Illustrator file, and click one button in the Invigorator. The old artwork was replaced with the new artwork and the models are rebuilt for you. The colors, shapes, and animations stay as they were. The scene simply "blinks" and the next animation is ready to render.

Step 5 - Using the PRO version's accelerated rendering, it can take less time to render the animation than it does to change the names of the players in the Illustrator file. How about that for different? It takes more time to do the 2D layout than it does to do the 3D animation and rendering!

"Things are certainly different when you have the Invigorator working on your side!" - Zax Dow