Tutorial for animated curtains

Panopticum Curtains 1.3 for Adobe After Effects

   Panopticum Curtains - it is an additional module for the Adobe After Effects 4.x and higher, and Premiere
   for Win and Mac versions.
Panopticum Curtains is a set of plug-in modules designed to help you art up you video with eye-catching dynamic pieces of fabric that look perfectly real. This product is in fact unique. Creating professional complex effects with pieces of fabric had never been that easy! Now you can create flags fluttering in the wind, gauzy curtains slightly trembling as in the breeze, or heavy tableau curtains - and all that with very little effort. You can place various logos, images or videos over your piece of fabric, set illumination for your fabric, adjust its properties and more. You can also define the motion manner for the fabric and forces affecting it. More than that, you can create "glass" fabric, which refracts the image under it while moving.
Working with our set is really easy. You don't have to create a complicated 3D scene and adjust sophisticated animation for its components in order to get a fine-looking realistic fabric. All you have to do is to apply one of the modules from the Panopticum Curtains set and adjust the appropriate parameters to make your final video look absolutely fantastic.
Panopticum curtains set consists of three modules: Curtain, Tableau and Theatre. Each of them lets you obtain specific animation type to apply to your curtains.
Curtain is a module that lets you create various types of fabric. With this module you can create such effects as flags fluttering in the wind, curtains slightly trembling, as well as transition effects for your fabric and more. This module is really easy to work with. A variety of adjustable parameters are available. The process of their adjustment is intuitive, therefore requires basically no effort.
Tablea is a module that lets you create various types of curtains, blinds and drapes. Parameters of this module are even easier to adjust than those of the previously described module.
Theater is a module that lets you obtain the effect of a curtain drawn apart like in the theater. Its parameters are as easy to adjust as those of the previously described module.

It's true what we keep saying about our modules being so easy to work with. All parameters can be adjusted intuitively, which makes them very convenient to work with. But it's also true that Panopticum Curtains is a very powerful and useful tool with sophisticated mathematical mechanism inside that lets you create top-quality professional effects. We made this mechanism invisible to you, so when working with our modules you don't have to worry about how to obtain this or that effect with your fabric. All you have to do is just to adjust certain parameters to get the mind-blowing video you need.

We hope that you'll make good use of our product and it'll help you in your everyday work. With our modules you can create real masterpieces of computer art. We truly believe that our product will contribute to your success and that the efforts you've put into its mastering will pay off as you'll get a new powerful tool that will let you materialize your creativity to the full extent!

Installing Panopticum Curtains for Adobe After Effects
To install our set on your computer, launch the setup program. Then simply follow the instructions in the dialog box. When asked to specify the folder for your plug-in to be installed to, choose the folder Plug-ins for After Effect (for example, ...\After Effects 6.0\ Plug-Ins\Panopticum).

Fast start
Once you have installed the plug-in, launch After Effects. Create new composition, then create new layer. Choose the "Panopticum Effects\Curtain" option from the "Effect" menu. Now simply click the Play button in Time Control window. You'll see a gray fluttering flag. Now we'll show you how to adjust animation parameters and fabric properties.
It's very simply for use and helpful for practice using products.

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Windows version: Size:1 513 K Last release: April, 23, 2004 support home

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