• Adobe After Effects

  Popping up many dots

  Posted by Tad Marsik on May 9, 2016 at 4:43 pm

  Hello, first of all thank you for this forum. It helped me a lot since I’m learning in After Effects.

  Now I’ve got into a trouble because I can’t find a solution on the internet and I can’t think of something… normal.

  Let’s say I have this background. It was made with halftone function in Photoshop.
  https://i.imgur.com/HJt7bnV.png

  I’d like to make an intro with identical background and those circles to be animated. Like popping up from 0% scale.
  Is there an easier way how to do it in After Effects? I started with AE a few days ago so I came up only with making every single circle and change sizes manually.

  Thank you for responses, I really appreciate it.

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  Richard Herd replied 10 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Joseph W. bourke

  May 9, 2016 at 6:27 pm

  This tutorial might help you out:

  https://lesterbanks.com/2014/03/create-easy-halftone-effect-ae-using-shape-layers-camera-lens-blur/

  Joe Bourke
  Owner/Creative Director
  Bourke Media
  http://www.bourkemedia.com
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  Richard Herd

  May 9, 2016 at 7:00 pm

  You can animate it with shape layers and a repeater. If you have you used expressions before, modifying a “drag me” expression on the radius or scale parameter will get you there too:

  
//applied to a blur effect, for example, causes the blur intensity to increase as the to points get closer;

  point1=transform.position;
point2=thisComp.layer("dragme").transform.position;
delta=sub(point1,point2);
distance=length(delta);
linear(distance, 0, 80, 40, 0);


  I can’t remember where I got the dragme expression, but I didn’t write it.

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