Break images onto cubes face into z-space

[Sebastien Allain]

Some adjustments… not yet perfect at all! just some idea
https://www.apt-a.com/cow/Depth_Cue_Test_AE7.aep

sebastien

[Arnaud Paris]

Sebastien,
It’s funny to see a Mobalpa video from somebody on the cow!!
But it looks really good and it’s exactly what I’m trying to get as a final result.
I’m installing AE7 to look at the file.
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[Arnaud Paris]

Thanks Steve for getting into those detailed explanations.
I’ll give it a try, you came up with some very clever techniques.
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[Arnaud Paris]

Sebastien,
I looked at the file, smart thing that using the technique of fading the full layer right
before you start the camera movement, so that you don’t have to worry about the “blank” spaces between layers.

But after looking at the Mobalpa exemples it looks like you were able to find a perfect way to divide the image onto those primitives so that they cover the full screen and also fit perfectly the new image after the rotation.
Did you do that in After Effects? Did you use a specific plug to make the computations of what shape and where they have to be in the 3D space to get such a perfect result?
Thanks
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[Sebastien Allain]

Sorry, i was far from my computer.
Mobalpa’effect was created without any plugin. I spent few days to script and the result is very similar than the buena’plug does now: The idea was to scale layers depending to their distance from camera (projection camera). Each layer had the same image but their own (different) mask. This masks were designed in Photoshop with some parts of Mobalpa’logo. This king of comp is multiply by 2 in order to reach another angle (90