Revealing models over time

Louis Marcoux has posted some cool video tutorials for animators on his blog showing various techniques for revealing models over time (using animated gradient masks, Pro-Booleans, PFlow, Loft, Reactor & Maxscript).

Reveal with Masks
In this video, you'll see how to use materials and animated gradient masks to make object draw themselves on the screen.

Reveal with Pro-Booleans
Here, you'll see how to use Pro-Booleans to animate subtractions on objects to make them appear on screen. With Pro-Booleans, UV Maps and materials are preserved on cut surfaces which allows very interesting cut effects as the objects reveal.

Reveal with Loft Objects
Loft objects have deformations curves that can be animated. In this video, you'll see how to animate the loft curves to make them draw progressively on the screen.

Reveal with Reactor and Time Distortion
In this video, you'll see how to cut an object in fragments, simulate their breaking in Reactor and reverse the animation to make the objects construct themselves for their debris.

Reveal with Pflow
See how particles can attach themselves to objects when they find them. If the particles are flying around and then stick to hidden object, the objects start to appear. By mixing visibility with particles, you can create very cool effects of object appearing from flying dust.

Reveal with Max Script - Part 1 : Offset
First part of a series of script techniques that will end with animated objects all falling into their final position with a simple button click. This video covers the basics of moving objects with Max Script.

Reveal with Max Script - Part 2 : Rotation
This one covers local rotation with Max Script.

Reveal with Max Script - Part 3 : Animation
This one covers the basics of animation keyframing with Max Script.

Reveal with Max Script - Part 4 : Visibility
This one shows how to animate visibility with Max Script.

Reveal with Max Script - Part 5 : User Interface
This one shows how to build an interface for the animation tool that we have developed in the previous videos.

Reveal with Max Script - Part 6 : Ordering Objects in Arrays
This one is an extra scripting technique where you can learn how to reorder elements in an array based on certain conditions. It will be helpful to animate blocks of objects based on their relative position.