• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Video playing on a flexing grid of particles

  Posted by Nick Hamilton on February 17, 2009 at 12:33 pm

  Edit: Sorry, wrong forum. Re-posting this in the After Effects forum.

  Hey

  I’ve had a look at various particle effects in After Effects but can’t seem to get what I’m looking for, so I’m bringing the question here.

  Does anyone know how to create a grid of particles (doesn’t specifically have to use particles, but that’s the best way to describe what I’m thinking of) that can have a video playing over the top, with each particle, or ‘box’, playing 10×10 pixels of the video (for example). The boxes would have to have a slight gap between each other, so they’re not totally connected, and I’d also be looking for the particles in the grid to be flexing (gently stretching forwards and backwards, with the video moving with it.)

  Hopefully someone can help.

  Thanks

  Nick

  Filip Vandueren replied 17 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
• 3 Replies

• 

  Filip Vandueren

  February 17, 2009 at 2:42 pm

  I think everything you described can be done with the Card Dance plugin, No need for expressions or particles.

  https://help.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/9.0/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103a9d3c597-7acaa.html

  First make some Fractal Noise in a precomp, because you need Grayscale values to dynamically animate the properties of this plugin. It’s all in the manual.
• 

  Nick Hamilton

  February 17, 2009 at 7:21 pm

  Thanks very much, I’ll have a look into that!
• 

  Filip Vandueren

  February 17, 2009 at 11:04 pm

  Please don’t cross-post in the future.

  Good luck with the animation.

Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up