Motion Boutique's video: Tutorial: Dynamically unravel a shape in After Effects using Newton3

Ariel asked us "Hello, is it possible to create the “unraveling” effect on a neon sign that you see at :47 of this video: https://youtu.be/BaLHthRsqQk&t=0m47s " Well, yeah! It's possible and here's how! UPDATE!!! Use our "Prepare Soft Bodies" script instead of using the "Create Nulls from Path" script, available for free here: https://www.motionboutique.com/free-script-prepare-soft-bodies/ In this tutorial, I will show you how to unravel a shape in Adobe After Effects using Newton3 and ConnectLayersPRO. Here's the process: 0:00 Track and stabilize with Mocha AE. 1:50 Reverse stabilization. 2:26 Keying using Keylight 3:40 Trace the shape in Adobe Illustrator and export to AE using Overlord 4:16 Prepare the shape for Newton3 using the "Create Nulls from Path" script 6:10 Recreate the shapes with ConnectLayersPRO 7:50 Adjust the position of the shape and track the movement of the hand 9:46 Physics simulation with Newton3 13:16 Apply glow with Deep Glow 15:24 Final compositing with Composite Brush I will also use other tools such as: Overlord, MOBO_Utils, Deep Glow and Composite Brush (Note that you can do without these tools). Thanks to the authors for those tutorials: -Stabilize and reverse stabilization using Mocha and CC Power Pin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-y3nqpcCgo -Light Wrap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Mvxl89R5g Get the tools: Newton3, ConnectLayersPRO and MOBO_Utils: https://aescripts.com/authors/m-p/motion-boutique/ Overlord : https://www.battleaxe.co/overlord Deep Glow : https://aescripts.com/deep-glow/ Composite Brush : https://aescripts.com/composite-brush/ Cheers to Adam Plouff, Chris Vranos, the Plugin Everything team and Lloyd Alvarez.