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  • Simple background effect?: kaleidescope-esque, but not…

    Posted by Eric Chard on October 1, 2012 at 6:59 pm

    Please look at this video, specifically starting at 1:31:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8ZeW2RNrgA&list=PL2AC359F15F13CE4F&index=3&feature=plpp_video

    The simple background effect here was given to me by my client, pre-rendered. I could replicate it, rather laboriously, but I’m pretty sure this is a very simple effect, probably just ONE effect, and wondered what it might be.

    Anybody know?

    Thanks!

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    Eric Chard replied 13 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  • John Cuevas

    October 1, 2012 at 8:14 pm

    Try CC Kaleida

    Johnny Cuevas, Editor
    Thinkck.com

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  • Eric Chard

    October 1, 2012 at 8:27 pm

    CC Kaleida — nope, not seeing it. (but, many settings so who knows?)

    What is characteristic about the particular effect I’m referencing is the recognizability of the image: CC Kaleida is too much a kaleidoscope in that most settings severely erode any recognizability of the source image, although the look is very cool, it’s mostly abstract.

    Thanks for the response!: got anything else???

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  • John Cuevas

    October 1, 2012 at 8:39 pm

    Sorry, I posted before I had time to experiment, after a few minutes I realized it’s not CC Kaleida.

    I did a little experiment with some 4 shapes(precomped) and CC Repetile that comes close, but I cant seem to get how the edges seem to blend together a bit. I feel like I should know this one, but right now the answer is eluding me.

    Johnny Cuevas, Editor
    Thinkck.com

    “I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
    —THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

  • Eric Chard

    October 1, 2012 at 9:48 pm

    Thanks for the effort: I think they did it by precomping the rotating image w/sufficient border so that the bckg never shows, then using CC Repetile. It’s certainly doable that way.

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