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Image to dots transition
Hi Guys, I was wondering how you would make to following animation – https://vimeo.com/61042884
The part were some dots become an image.
Im starting out with Trapcode Form and using that as a ‘mask’ over the image. If somebody has a better suggestion, im glad to hear it. thanks.
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That’s what, in the newspaper and printing industrie, was called a Halftone. It was created so that continuous tone images could be printed and maintain their greyscale values. There’s a Red Giant plugin Toon It! which has a halftone setting – Toon It! Roto Toon Droplet setting is a good looking halftone effect:
https://www.redgiant.com/products/all/toonit/
There’s also a free plugin, Retrodots, but it doesn’t grade the size of the dot based on the contrast of the scene:
https://www.philipp-spoeth.de/photoshop/retrodots.php
There’s also the Omino Suite, which has a Halftone, but it doesn’t look as if it’s been developed for CS5 yet, let alone CS6:
I could swear there’s another free halftone plugin floating around, but I can’t find it – try search on “Halftone” and “After Effects”.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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to add to that list, trapcode’s particular can do it if you have that (greymachine.com used to have a tutorial, i’m sure there are others).
you can do it with card dance on a layer that is a grid of circles, and use a gradient layer to set the x and y scale of the cards.
you can even build your own with a whole bunch of circle layers and a couple expressions, but that seems pretty tedious…
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
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You could also use a combination of Cartoon and CC Ball Action.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist
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