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  • Steve Roberts

    December 17, 2006 at 11:46 am

    If you’re talking about the disintegrating logo thing on the big screen, it looks like Shatter was applied to one layer of the logo, with other copies of the logo below. Multiple layers were used. Beyond that, there would have been a fair bit of experimentation to determine the right combination of layers shattering and not.

    That’s my take on it, anyway.

  • Anonymous

    December 17, 2006 at 5:15 pm

    Try card dance.

    The Roach
    http://www.projectrooster.com

  • Mylenium

    December 17, 2006 at 7:38 pm

    You need to somehow quantize your image and that can be easily done using Card Dance, Mosaic or CC Ball Action. Then apply a grid texture as an inverted matte to get the gaps. How you proceed from there is pretty much up to you, but do not forget that in the clip they use a 3D program and use the footage as a animated texture. You won’t be able to get something as spectacular with vanilla AE.

    Mylenium

    [Pour Myl

  • Tyler Paul

    December 17, 2006 at 11:07 pm

    Project File

    HERE’S what I came up with.

    The matte for the screen effect was made from Fractal Noise set to block and the complexity set to 0, then scaled. Then I made a black grid to match it. The gigantic 3D screen was made with multiple layers of the footage. I used an expression with a slider to adjust the curved bevel around the edges.

    Place your footage in a comp. Lable it Top. Make a new mask for your desired shape.

    Duplicate the Layer. Lable it Bottom.

    Add this expression to the anchor point.
    thisComp.layer(index-1).transform.anchorpoint-[0,0,3]

    On your top layer change the mask expansion to -70

    Duplicate the Bottom layer and lable the duplicate middle. (Make sure the layers are in order: top middle bottom)

    Create a null layer, lable it curve adjust. Add a slider. Set it’s range from 1-2. Lable it Curve.

    On the middle layer add this expression to it’s mask expansion
    curve=thisComp.layer(index-1).mask(“Mask 1”).MaskExpansion/thisComp.layer(“Curve Adjust”).effect(“Curve”)(“Slider”);
    [curve]

    Now duplicate te middle layer about 15 times and adjust the curve.

    * * *
    “Life Should Come With Backround Music”

    -Brown Sugar Studios-

    Tyler Paul’s Toonificator V3.2Example Clip

  • Tyler Paul

    December 17, 2006 at 11:48 pm

    Take it one step further I just added the mosaic filter to the mix. Now it looks really nice.

    In the segment matte I set the fractel noise layer to multiply and placed my footage below it. Then I added the mosaic filter to the footage and adjusted it to match the grid.

    * * *
    “Life Should Come With Backround Music”

    -Brown Sugar Studios-

    Tyler Paul’s Toonificator V3.2Example Clip

  • Tom J

    December 18, 2006 at 1:39 am

    Very nice, the only thing I would try and do would be to add some sort of subtle frame to the video to hide the duplicates as the camera makes its pass.

    Pretty cool and easy too.

    Tom

  • Chompy

    December 18, 2006 at 11:55 am

    thanks folks,
    watch this space!
    chompy

  • Chris Smith

    December 19, 2006 at 5:04 am

    The feet momma, the feet! What about the feet!!!???

    I love Brak.

    Chris Smith
    https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com

  • Tyler Paul

    December 19, 2006 at 1:57 pm

    Without audio he looks so evil but then you hear his voice and he’s nothing but adorable.

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