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Enlarging a clip and keeping the pixels crisp
Hi,
I have recently animated a piece in the style of a 16-bit video game.
Since I wanted it to look completely authentic, I worked to the resolution of 320×224.
To display this animation, it will be playing in an arcade cabinet on an old computer monitor. The monitor will be hooked up to my PC, with the animation on loop.
My problem is, I do not know how to enlarge my clip and keep the pixels from blurring. In photoshop, I would use the nearest neighbour option instead of bicubic. And even then, I would need to enlarge by increments of %25 to make it look perfect.
I just want the animation to fit my monitor, and have crispy big pixels like they did when I played arcade games in the early 1990’s.
Is there a way to do this in after effects?
I do not know flash, but would there be an option there?
Thanks for reading this, I hope someone can help.
Diego -
7 Replies
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Thanks for the suggestion Dave.
If what you mean is, scale my animation clip to size, then add the mosaic effect, I worry that this may be more of a “cheat” than a solution.
Meaning it will pixelize my animation again, but not matching the exact animation/artwork.
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Gotcha, thanks again Dave I’ll play around with it.
After work that is.
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you could also try scaling the comp up with ‘draft’ quality settings for that layer (it’s the check box that looks like a diagonal line in the layer switches, click it so it looks jaggy).
this should prevent pixel interpolation for that layer as you scale it.
when you render, you’ll also need to click the render settings and choose ‘draft’ also.
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
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I’ll try that too… Thanks!
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Not sure how to exactly go about this in AE, but since you know of a way of accomplishing it in photoshop, couldn’t you export a tif sequence, create an action in photoshop that would scale up the way you want and save, then just import into AE and create your animation.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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That’s an amazing idea!
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Click Image, Image Size, Type in what ever size you want, Then at the bottom of that window, make sure that “Nearest Neighbor (preserve hard edges)” has a check beside it. Tah-Dah! 😀
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