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  • help..large pixel look not using Mosaic effect

    Posted by Yianni Papanicolaou on March 12, 2009 at 11:22 pm

    I want to copy an idea I saw on a youtube video. I’ve read some forums suggesting the Mosaic effect, this is fine if i just want to pixelate a photo or video, but to get the effect i want it seems I’ll have to use solids and masks and animate frame by frame. Check out this vid if you haven’t already.. the mosaic effect is too broad for what I want to achieve, no accuracy…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_ZZfVyudGQ

    can I lock layers to a grid without the need for using tons of layers to construct the actual grid

    thank you thank you

    Hannah xx

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    Filip Vandueren replied 17 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Filip Vandueren

    March 13, 2009 at 1:09 am

    I would start off with an adjustment layer for the mosaic, and add a black grid on top of that.

    to round off layer positions to say, the nearest multiple of 16, try this exp for position:


    grid=16;

    x=Math.round(value[0]/grid)*grid;
    y=Math.round(value[1]/grid)*grid;

    [x,y];

    But for getting a brilliant animation like this, it will hardly be a shortcut: it just takes talent, time, and dedication, and indeed a lot of frame by frame work.

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