Hi. I'm Doug Appleton, the Visual Effects Director here at Perception. And for this tutorial, we're going to talk about how we can use animation to add complexity to your designs. And we're going to do that with this cool globe that we have here. And you'll see we have some of these beacons that are popping up and animating. Some of our tick marks over here are animating. There's a lot of cool little details here that are going to add a lot of interest to your design. So let's get started. So, the first thing we're going to do is, make those beacons. And we're going to do that by going to our top menu, grab our Pen tool up here. You'll go down to this...make sure we have Enable Snap on. And make sure our Workplane Snap is on. The same way with Grid Point Snap. So you can see, we're snapping to our grids. Because we just want to do a nice straight line, and that's it, real simple. Grab a Circle. And then let's also grab a Sweep. We'll go back into here. Our Circle, you want to make sure, is set to XY. Otherwise, when you put in your Sweep, it's going to look all weird, and not do you any good. So, our Circle, let's change you to about three centimeters. And we're just going to animate our Start Growth and our End Growth. You'll see that does that. This animates from there. So, set everything to zero. Make a frame... Oops. Make a frame on both. Let's go to five, let's change End Growth there and key frame both of those guys. And then we'll go to 15 and then we'll set Start Growth to 100. And then key frame both of those again. And then we're going to go to frame 30 and key frame both of those again. You'll see why we do that in a second. So, we go down here to our curves. You'll see we got this thing right here. If you hit S, it just will zoom in on whatever you have selected. So, we see our nice keys over here. I'm going to click on Sweep. On After, let's change that to Repeat. Change those Repetitions to 99. And what's that going to do, if we zoom out, you'll see we are now repeating those keys 99 times. And 99's kind of arbitrary, just want to have...make sure we have a lot of repetitions here, so we don't have to go in and start animating a ton of stuff. It's just one simple little thing that repeats a bunch. And the reason why we added our keys at the beginning and at the end, even if we weren't changing anything, is because this now becomes our loop. So if we went into Start Growth, and let's say, deleted that point and deleted the end point here and we pressed play, you'll see it starts getting all real weird because this is repeating just 10 frames, whereas End Growth is repeating 30 frames and they're just off. So, it's not going to line up. So even if we're not animating anything on there, you want to make sure we have those keys, and it's basically just telling it, "Repeat this whole section for both of these." So we get that. So now let's do the little beacon part at the end of that. So what you want to do is grab a Torus. Just take this Torus, we'll set it to zero. And we're going to animate our Ring Radius and our Pipe Radius. So, we'll put a key again, at zero. Let's go to five. And we'll make another key on those. And then let's go, let's say 30. We'll put that up to...that's probably good. And then Pipe Radius, key that again. And then we'll go to 40, and that is to... Sorry, we want this at 30, [inaudible] 30. There we go. We'll go that. Let's say there. So, you want to make sure this is the same length as this one. So, they're repeating in the same amount of time. So now this is doing that, not doing exactly what we want. So, let's go to, I don't know, frame 12. Why not? Pipe Radius, we will animate that up. Now, what we should get...there we go...is a pipe that animates on and then disappears. Let's click this. Let's tweak this a little bit. So, Ring Radius...let's go into this guy and just like pull that like this. And what that's going to give us is, more of this like explosion at the start and then easing out. You'll see how it kind of pops quick and then it eases out. And that's exactly what we want with that guy. And we can go in here and just sort of pull that just a little bit, just to adjust the curves. Let's try that one more time. There it is. So, I think that's nice. So, let's grab this Torus. Let's duplicate it. And just take everything here, and just move it down just a few frames. We can move this over, let's say, two frames. Now, we should have two of these guys. And I want to have a little more pause between the two of them, so it's really just taking the frames in the beginning and just shifting them down. That's probably a little too much. You know, we're really just trying to get a feel for this nice pulse there. So I think this one...yeah, I think that's good. We're going to do the same thing with these that we did with the Sweep, is make sure we select those. After, change that to Repeat. Let's change that to 99 so it repeats forever-ish. And we'll get that. Perfect. But now, this needs to go over there. So, we're going to do that by selecting our Torus, changing both of them to negative X. For this one, they could both be positive X, doesn't make a big difference for this. Let's find a frame where we can see how long that is. And then turn off our snapping, since we don't need snapping. And let's just move these guys to the end. And then what that's going to give us, should be a nice pulse that hits and gives a little pulse at the end of it as well. Great. So now that we have our beacon, let's make a new Null object. Put that in there. We'll call you, "beacon." And let's make a Sphere, because now we're going to work on the globe part of this. So this Radius, we'll put this up to 1,500. We'll change this to Icosahedron, and then let's increase the Segments on this. Let's go up to 60. I also want to delete our Phong Tag. And then, also uncheck Render Perfect, and what that's going to do for us is render this and be able to see the tessellation on here, which will be a really nice look when we get everything put together. So, just really quickly, to make our lives a little bit easier, let's make two shaders. One just a white Luminance, and we'll put that on the beacon. So that when this is animated, we can see our guy right there. And then on our sphere, we'll make a new shader. This one's going to be a little different. Let's keep the color. We're going to put on a Fresnel, and we really want to get... What we want here is... Oops, sorry. I think I did that in the wrong thing. Yeah, I did the Luminance some more. Fresnel, there we go. We want to get a white kind of outline on this. So, we do something like this and that should give us something like that. So we get this nice white outline, and you can really see what's going on here. We can see the tessellation on this stuff, which is really cool. So, in Reflectance, this is just going to remain default. We can change this, if we want this spot to be a little tighter. We don't want it as big. So, we could do that. So, really nothing fancy going on with this, nothing too crazy. So, good. I like that guy. So these are our two objects in here. So, we want to get our beacons around our sphere. We're going to do that with a Cloner. And we're going to put our beacon inside of our Cloner, change our Cloner to an Object Cloner. And we want to clone it on the sphere. So, it's going to go crazy for a second, because it's going on every single vertices. We don't want that, we want it to be Surface. And we can set it to, I think 20's good. You can obviously increase it, if you want to, but right now I think 20 is good for what we're doing. The other thing we want to do is, you can see how everything is on here now, animating at the same time and random directions, none of which is what we're looking for. So let's go to our Cloner. Uncheck Fix Clone and go to your beacon group and let's just rotate this 90 degrees. What that's going to do is have these beacons shoot out of our sphere now. So, these are all looking cool, but what we're really missing is that off-set of all of that animation. So we want to click on our Cloner and our Effectors. We want to add a Random Effector. So, let's go into MoGraph, Random. Let's turn off Position, we don't really need that. But on Scale, turn on Uniform Scale. Let's just adjust it a little bit, just for a little bit of variety here. Nothing too crazy, but the important thing down here is the Time Offset. Let's change that to 20. And what that's going to do is look at the animation inside of our Cloner and then offset each clone by 20 frames. So you'll see now, we have this really nice offset. You can see we're already adding complexity to this entire thing. So let's keep going with making the rest of this globe. So we have our sphere, we want to add a little bit more. We add some more detail on that guy. So let's duplicate that. We'll delete our shading, from here we don't need that. Let's put this inside of an Atom Array. And then we'll leave this, as is right now. Because I think we have this...we're starting to get this nice cool look to this. It's a little big, let's just put this down to one and, let's say three. We want it a little finer, just like that. That's good. We'll make another shader and this one... We'll turn off that stuff. Just use the Luminance, and we'll make this, I don't know, a little gray. That'll go on top of our Atom Array. And let's duplicate that Atom Array one more time. And then take the Sphere and let's make it a little bigger. You can probably also reduce this. Let's go down to 30. And what we're going to do with this guy...let's see, we have this looking good so far. It's still a little big. Let's put that down to .1, so we have this nice fine outer Atom Array on here. We're going to do a little something different with this, we're going to go back, get another Random Effector, put that underneath our Sphere. Position we will do zero, zero but we'll leave this for right now. On Deformer, let's change that to Point. And let me just select this, so you can see what's going on here. So, with this set to Point, we're deforming the points. We're getting a little variation on this guy, which is nice. But what we want is a little bit of animation on that too. So, click on the random effector again. Click on Effector, Random Mode, we're going to set that to Noise. And what that's going to do...this is hard to see, so we'll turn our Atom Array off for right now. What that's going to do is give us some animation on top of our deformed sphere, on our outer sphere, which is exactly what we're looking for. So, let's go back into the parameters here, and we'll just increase this to get a little more variation in there. So now we've got this nice cool thing, it's probably going a little fast. So, just, on Animation Speed, let's put that down to 50, so it's nice and slow. Turn our Atom Array back on and if we zoom in here, you can really see what's going on. So, I think that's really cool. That's really nice. Let's do a quick test on that. And you can see how this Atom Array looks on the outside. So, let's keep working on this guy. Let's duplicate this outside Sphere. Delete that, we don't need that anymore, and we will increase this even more. And let's add another Cloner and another Sphere, put that inside of our Cloner. This guy is tiny, let's set this to like three segments. Three is good for that. What we're going to do is then, turn this into an Object Cloner again, and clone our new sphere. And then turn the visibility off on this guy. Oops, not that guy, on this guy. So, what we want to do is, just grab that same random effector from here, put it underneath...let's duplicate that...put it underneath this guy here. And you'll see now, we're just adding a little more variation to our dots on the outside. So this thing's looking pretty cool so far. And everything, as you can see, is animated here. If you want a little bit of variety there, you can go here and increase this speed. Let's say, 75. So these outside ones are going to be moving faster than those inside guys. So, let's also...we want to make those tick marks that we had. But first, let's clean this up a little bit. So, we have this, and these are our beacons. So we'll call you, "beacon_GRP." I'm going to just turn that off for a second. And then, all this stuff here is our spheres. So we'll call this, "spheres_GRP." That's not how you spell that. Let's put all of this inside of there. Cool. So now we have our two groups, so let's make those tick marks. We'll just turn these off for right now. And these tick marks, we want a Cube and we want a Cloner. So we'll throw our Cube inside of our Cloner. Our Cloner, we're going to change to Radial. I'll turn on our spheres, just to see how big we need to make this. I think we're at 59, so let's try 2,500. Probably a little less than that, 2,000. There you go. That's probably good, probably go a little bigger. Great. And then our cloner, let's change it to 360 and you'll see right now, they look kind of crazy. That's useless to us. So let's go in here, make these all smaller. We still got these nice dots, but we want tick marks. So, let's put this up to, let's say 25, and so we get this nice fine tick mark radial element around here. And let's duplicate that, and we'll put you to 50. And you can see, we're getting this nice look here. So let's again go to Effector, Random effector. We don't need our Position, but we do want Scale. So our Scale, we'll crank up a bit. Let's put that at, let's say three. And then we also want this to animate because right now it's not doing anything. So we'll go back to our Noise, and press play. And you can see our animation here. And one interesting thing to look at with this stuff, is you can really see what Scale is doing on our Noise. Our Scale here is adjusting the scale of the Noise itself. So, when this is really, really big, you can see how it's very, very smooth. Looks almost like it could possibly be a wave form, if these were much larger. You know, if we were to take this and make these a lot bigger. You can see how this starts to look, maybe like a wave form, maybe like audio, something like that. But we want these smaller and if we take the Scale here and make it smaller, you can see how each one of them, sort of individually looks like it's moving. That's because the noise that's affecting it is much, much smaller. You want something in between so, you know, we'll do somewhere around here. I think this is nice. So now that we've got this, we just want a few more of these. So, we will make another Cloner. We'll put this guy inside of that. Let's move that up. So in this Cloner, I want to keep it linear. Let's turn that off. And then, we'll set this to 110, so we can get these to scale up a little bit. And then let's animate...not animate. Let's just adjust some of these, which I think is cool. So, now we got this kind of look We press play, everything's animating. Everything's working out well. What we want to do is go into our Cloner, our Transform of our Cloner. You see we get this stuff moving here. Let's make a key in the beginning here. Let's go to frame, let's say, 40 and just move that and, let's say, that. This stuff is kind of arbitrary here. Let's set that key, press play. So, you can see everything is moving, but we kind of want this to do the same thing that the other stuff is doing and just move, animate indefinitely. So, I want to go down into... I'm sorry. Go down into our Timeline here and we're animating our Cloner. You can see, right now we have this nice curve here. We don't want that, we want it to be linear. So, you go up to here, to this guy. Click Linear. That'll make it linear, so we're not easing in and out. And then, the same thing we were doing before, except instead of going to Repeat, let's do Continue. And that'll continue this line indefinitely. It'll just go forever, and that's exactly what we want. So now, let me play this. It keeps moving. So if this is too fast, we could do... The nice thing about doing it this way is, just grab this key frame, drag it down, and now it should be a little bit slower. And if that's still too fast, you can ease them all the way out and just move it all the way over there. Now, you got this nice slow animation on that. And the final thing we want to do, because now that we have...let's turn this guy on too...now that we have everything animating the way we like, some things are a little static. The globe itself is a little static, so let's take everything off first. Let's put these guys in here and we'll call this, "tickMark_GRP." And then let's make a new Null and we'll call this, "globe_GRP." Throw all of this in here. And then really, simply key frame, key frame, and then the same thing we did last time. Clicking on our curves here, setting them to Linear, and then setting it to Continue. Let's see how that looks. So, I think that's probably going a little too quickly, so we'll just drag this. Let's drag this guy all the way down, so it slows down. Now, I have this nice, slow rotating globe. And let's just look at this. And there you go. And so we have this cool looking FUI globe, with a lot of animation, a lot of complex animation that's very, very simple to do. But by using Cloners and offsetting the time, you really get this complexity here, that's actually very simple to do. We maybe have, I don't know, 10 key frames in this whole thing and the rest of it's being animated with Noise. So, it's really, really simple but you get a lot of bang for your buck in this method. So I hope you enjoyed that. I hope you guys learned something and thanks for watching.