Combining shapes and edges automatically ( hard to explain – please read on)

[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

Animate the masks just for the inside image blobs. Render a simple white on black pass of the animated masks. Use Find Edges ( with invert checked on most likely) to create animated edges of the moving “blobs”- this will create separate edges for the fills as long as they are apart but will combine them once they touch. Use the result as a alpha for the bk video with a matte choker to expand and finesse the edge.

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist

[Moog Gravett]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

If I’m reading that right, that would create extra pixels all around the ‘blobs’? Which is not really what I need.

I’ve attached a picture to help illustrate,

Object A and Object B travel towards each other. They are separate items with alpha channels.
When they get within ‘x’ pixels of each other, I want them to have a bridge pop in on the next frame. No extra pixels can be around the rest of the objects. Currently I’m animating a number of masks between a number of objects, which is less than ideal 🙂

I know this sounds rather picky, but it’s really the only way my specific set up will work.

Hope there’s some thoughts.

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