Looking to complete a “mosaic” shot and need some help…

[Edamame]

https://www.ayatoweb.com/ae_tips_e.html
example 50!!!
can be done in under 3 hours
mosiac program is prone to crashing so pause and save often
card dance is a lil confusing , but mess with it and you’ll get it
have fun!
-justin!

[Filip Vandueren]

I’ve also done something like this with some DVD menus I created last year.
More or less the exact same workflow using MacOSaix, but with Card-wipe with some jitter in it’s parameters.

MacOsaix is great, but it needs a lot of images to get a good result. I created a few thousand by turning video into 4 fps pict-sequences.
Then I let it sort some mosaic out for a few hours (it can do multiple mosaics at once) but as said: it does tend to crash (there is an ato-save feature though) and it uses Metric tons of Ram

The other nice feature is that it can search on Google to find pictures in a certain theme (just make sure there are no nude pictures flying by per mistake 😉

[Scott Frizzle]

I’m not sure if this is exactly what you’re looking for, but I’ve done similar things using Digital Anarchy’s 3d Assistants. Just for one example, you could use the Matrix Creator to create a large grid of images, keyframe the position of your 300-400 layers, then use Cubic Distribution to scatter the layers in 3d space, then use the Matrix Creator to reassemble the layers. The drawbacks are that you will be managing a lot of layers in your comp, and if the images are of different sizes you will have to have the 3d Assistants scale the layers so that you don’t have gaps in your matrix. Also, the transition to your large image is going to be up to you, but I’ve done this using a simple dissolve along with tranfser modes to get the grid of pictures to eventually create one large image.

The advantage to this approach is you will maintain individual control over each and every layer, so you can switch around images should you need to, and since the images exist in a real 3d environment you will have carte blanche as far as camera moves are concerned.

Let me know if this makes sense; I’d be happy to be more detailed if need be.

-scott

[Michael Munkittrick]

That’s pretty close but the look I’m going for is more of the example on the Ayoto(sp?) site. I need hundreds of photos to come from out of view, behind the camera and to zoom passed into an invisible frame that forms a larger image. Ultimately, there are about 400 total images that need to be used to comprise the larer image, but the difficulty has been the fact that the images need to maintain their integrity until they are near the grid where they’ll form the larger image.

We did this the hard way a few years ago for Walgreens Pharmacy, but what I learned from that was that one-by-one keyframing is simply too much work for a job like this.

I deeply appreciate the help and would invite any other ideas that you have as well.

Michael Munkittrick
Managing Creative Director
Evolve Media Solutions

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