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  • Help with background layers

    Posted by Sean Beznicki on September 10, 2009 at 4:24 pm

    Hi,

    I am trying to create the illusion that I am traveling down a path at high speeds but in reverse using a background i’ve created in photoshop. The background is a dirt path with trees. Is there a way to have the background layers continuosly loop to give the appearance that the viewer is moving very fast away from the distance?

    Thank You

    Adam Taylor replied 16 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Alexandre Braso

    September 10, 2009 at 5:43 pm

    Well…
    i don’t know if i really undertand your problem, but i think you can sold it making a copy of your background layer, put the 2 layers of the background side by side, create a null object to manipulate de layers, make a keyframe in position of null to start position with the first layer at the center of the composition and a end position with the second layer at the center the composition, create a loop out expression in the position property of null object and enable motion blur if you want.

    Alexandre Braso
    http://www.pixelsrender.com.br

  • Sean Beznicki

    September 10, 2009 at 6:03 pm

    Originally I had the layers individually scaling down starting from out of frame, and then I would lower the opacity of the layers furthest away. I repeated this process with duplicate layers but found it too tedious and wanted to find a way a another method using some type of looping mechanism.

    It definitely does not need to look photorealistic and could be stylized. I’m doing it for an animation.

    I don’t actually have illustrator but would not be advserse to scrapping the background if necessary for a different process to work.

    Thanks

  • Adam Taylor

    September 13, 2009 at 11:43 pm

    https://www.videocopilot.net have a tutorial that will show you the techniques you need. Its showing how to zoom out from a building to outer space looking back at the earth, but the techniques andrew uses can be adapted to do exactly what you want.

    adam

    Adam Taylor
    Video Editor/Audio Mixer/ Compositor/Motion GFX/Barista
    Character Options Ltd
    Oldham, UK

    http://www.sculptedbliss.co.uk

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