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It's an amazing animation. I am struggling with the idea of deploying 5-sec animation to my web app: from total darkness to total sunlight in 5 sec and back to darkness again. I´m sure this displacement animation is the right tek to do that - but I couldn't find an artist to achieve that, yet. I have this crazy thought to ask whether you could consider this challenge, on a commercial basis of course? Just a question :)
This is such a great tutorial, but I have been racking my brain - does anyone know how I could make this with a transparent background in the PNG file as I would like to layer another animation over another thing - I would be soooo grateful!
I usually create the mandala in a larger comp (like 6k square) and drop that as a precomp in a 4k or HD comp and resize to fill the frame to my liking.
That was perfect! Thanks! I am not skilled with Afetr Effects and most of the videos I came across used plug-ins that I do not have the funds to spend on. I also really appreciated that you explained what the expressions would do. So many videos tell one to type in values, but I have no idea what they are affecting. Thanks again!
This is excellent thank you! I saved the mirrors as an animation preset (as "Mandala") so I can easily apply them to any project :). I found a photo of lavender flowers creates a nice effect. I also animated a Null instead of the image itself and just link the image on (parent). That way I can easily swap them out without having to re-animate. I'm currently trying to find an image that has the desired effect. Shared to an AE subreddit if they'll let me.
At 9:58 in the video i demonstrated very quickly. You select the layer to be replaced, then hold alt (option) and click and drag the replacement layer from the project panel onto the old layer
I find it interesting that none of these time warp effects I have seen implemented filtering. When displaying 3d mapped or scaled images, we already use filtering to interpolate each pixel based on coordinate between texels. ( a fancy word for texture pixel) In theory, the same strategy could be implemented here if, instead of just showing the contents of whatever frame is closest to what you should be seeing, it could interpolate between the 2 closest frames based on where it is along the gradient. Currently the method used here creates this frilly, almost interlace effect.
there is a version of what you're talking about. there may be a more elegant way to do it, but I'd try this: place your video in a comp with a crazy high frame rate (like 120 or 240), then enable the frame blending option, so after effects synthesizes frame interpolation between existing frames. You'll get some odd artifacts from it, but it does a remarkable job sometimes. export this video, then import it to use in the displacement comp, with the frame rate set adequately high. You're essentially boosting the temporal resolution, and reducing the interlaced look
Quick question... Can I do this with CS4 version? I'd really like to avoid infinitely paying for a program that I would use like once every 2 or 3 months, but would need for decades. So I stuck with the CS4 version. Can I use it to do this? Thanks. ☺
Since I've never used CS4 myself I cannot answer for sure but you can probably find out if you try it. I'm pretty sure these same displacement effects existed in previous versions.
