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A very easy fade in
I’m an AE beginner and I’m trying to achieve a very easy effect but don’t know how: an image is revealed by having squares in a grid (or mosaics, or whatever) appear randomly. The squares don’t move around, they simply appear randomly until the entire image is revealed. Any ideas?
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Not sure that I’m picturing it the same as you are, but I’m thinking that you could use some masking.
This talks about keying, but also masking:
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I would recommend creating a solid layer in a new composition and adding the Noise & Grain > Fractal Noise effect to it. Change the settings so that you have a series of blocks:
Fractal Type – Basic (some others may work)
Noise Type – Block
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Complexity – 1.0Then place this composition inside the composition with your image (where the transition will occur). Add a Transition > Gradient Wipe to the image. For the Gradient Layer choose the blocky pre-composition you just placed here, for Gradient Placement you’ll probably find that ‘Stretch Gradient to Fit’ or ‘Center Gradient’ will work.
Now you can animate the Transition Completion from 100% (the image is invisible) down to 0% (the image is fully visible). You can set the Transition Softness to some percentage if you want each square to fade in, a higher percentage means a longer fade.
Gradient Wipe is an awesome transition you can use to control the reveal of an image using a grayscale map. I’d recommend playing with the fractal noise composition to see what else you can do!
Let me know if I can clarify any steps here.
Darby Edelen
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Thank you, worked perfectly.
Now, another question. How can I add a colored grid, so the blocks fade-in just inside each block of the grid.
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