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Background of squares options
I got some preliminary layouts from an art director, the background is made up of equal sized squares. These are 10 colors of the same logo, in 10 SLIGHTLY different shades of greys, cool and warm. For arguments’ sake, the grid is 10×7. SD project.
This background will likely be stationary, but the client wants the individual squares to cycle through all the colors. This needs to be random, should not look like a loop.
My first thought was to try and set up a blocky fractal noise and add Colorama with all the greys, and let it cycle.
Another thought is rows of hard-edged gradients and cycle Colorama through those. The whole grid could be setup so the greys are mixed up, not lined up sequentially by percentage of grey. This would help make it random, I think.
Any other thoughts? I of course want to avoid manual methods with a gazillion layers, I need something I can implement and change quickly. BTW I can handle some SIMPLE expressions!
Thanks!
Have a wonderful day.
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7 Replies
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If you don’t need to control where the varying shades/colors appear then I would definitely say that some blocky fractal noise is your best friend on this one.
Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
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I would use the exposure filter, then use an expression to control the amount of exposure.
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[mark harvey] “I would use the exposure filter, then use an expression to control the amount of exposure.”
I’m sincerely curious, how would you use the Exposure effect to accomplish this? I can’t think of a way…
Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
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I’m curious too, would that be a random expression on the levels? I’ve never used that filter…
Have a wonderful day.
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I would create the square as Grey, then use the exposure to adjust the amount of grey. Add an esxpression to control the exposure….if the expression is too quick, then convert to keyframes and stretch out the animation….
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Mark,
That’s in line with what I need to do, however, the greys are different, some are warm and some are cool, so there has to be an element of all three channels involved, not just exposure. That’s why I thought Colorama could help, since I could dial in all 10 colors exactly.
Have a wonderful day.
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I see… I assumed that the greys were grey (mix of black and white).
Mark
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