Help with photo mosaic effect

[Kevin Camp]

i think you can do this one of two ways….

first, since card dance can use an image map to determine how the cards move, you could build an animated image map where the image resolves in the shapes or patterns that you need. then when card dance uses that image map, it will bring the cards together in a similar shape or pattern.

another way might be to use multiple mosaic layers, each with card dance. but remove portions of the mosaic layers to create the shapes or patterns that you need (i would probably do this in photoshop), then offset the way they come together, so parts resolve earlier than other parts…

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[David Bogie]

Brian Maffit’s original training pieces for Card Dance included something I didn’t know you could do: Place four different grayscale images in one layer using the oft neglected Set Channel. So you can use one layer as the driver for four different Card Dance parameters. ANimate a spinning spiral on the red channel, a simple ramp on the blue channel, a lightning bolt shape on the green channel, and three blurry blobs on the alpha channel.

bogiesan

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[Kate Raisz]

Hello Bill:

Did you find an AfterEffects solution to creating the photo mosaic? We need to do the same thing — create a map of the world from thousands of still photographs.

Thanks,
Kate Raisz
42 Degrees North Films
Boston, MA