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  Distortion flicker…how to?

  Posted by Mill on October 26, 2005 at 4:54 pm

  Hi!

  I wonder if anyone has got some ideas of how to make the distortion flicker that was used a lot in “Batman Begins”.

  The center of the frame was still but around there was something like a magification flicker related to the lighting in the frame. Difficult to explain.

  Do you have any thought on how to achive this effect?

  Many Thanks!

  Mill replied 20 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Steven Bump

  October 26, 2005 at 6:20 pm

  I’ve not seen the referenced movie, but wouldn’t animating the perameters (distortion/bulge/mirage) using a wiggle expression work? You could precomp a non-distorted version on top and mask off the desired ‘still’ portions (feather the mask also.)

  -sbump
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  Mill

  October 26, 2005 at 8:05 pm

  Hi Steven

  thanks for your reply

  Before I posted here at the cow i tried to do what you proposed.
  I made a duplicate of the clip and used distortion and wiggle.

  I will try the bulge and also have a look at the mirage effect haven’t tried it before.

  thanks!

  Anyone else have any other suggestions? 🙂

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