Building Apple's front row graphics.

[rook]

I've been asked to create a graphics template that moves like apple's FRONT ROW interface...

See here if you don't already know it's look.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8_nw6VAI68

I don't normally make stuff like this in AE and could use a little guidance in setting this up.

My gut is telling me that there must be a fairly simple way of doing this so I don't have to animate each object seperately but I'm at a bit of a loss.

Any ideas on how you'd do it?

Thanks guys.

-rook

 

[milksac]

Place the 4 objects in 3D space stacked on top of one another. Add a null object to the stack. Then offset (move) each of the objects away from the null by the same amount.
Parent the objects to the null. Add a camera to the comp and make sure auto-orient (towards camera) is on for the 4 objects. Animate the rotation of the null and tweak the camera position as needed.

 

[rook]

I always forget the power of parenting to NUll objects.

It's so obvious.

milksac, thanks dude! It worked perfect!