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  • mesh warp pixelation

    Posted by Rick Van den berg on May 28, 2015 at 9:38 am

    Hi, quick question,

    im making an animation with some lines flying trough the image. when i use the mesh warp to give them some curves, it gets pretty ugly. i added some pictures to make it somewhat more clear.

    without the mesh distortion:

    with mesh distortion:

    where the lines cross, its pretty pixelated. i understand its a pretty heavy distortion, but i was still wondering if there’s a way to fix this

    Peter Diefenthaler replied 10 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Rick Van den berg

    May 29, 2015 at 3:44 pm

    okay fair enough, so how would you approach this? i cant just create the curves and do a mask animation, because the lines wouldnt ”squeeze” that nice over time plus it would take alot more time to animate/ do variations. and particles are also not really the way to go imo.

    im now just doing it with the mesh warp , trying not to go too far

  • Chris Wright

    May 31, 2015 at 5:07 am

    smart blur or cc vector blur might help, but it wouldn’t be perfect like antialiasing/anistropic filtering in a 3d program.

  • Rick Van den berg

    June 2, 2015 at 7:27 am

    ok, thanks!

  • Peter Diefenthaler

    June 8, 2015 at 2:04 am

    Try making this element at double the resolution, pre-compose and then scale down to your final required dimensions. This is like “super sampling” and can help with aliasing by smooshing more pixels together.

    Peter Diefenthaler
    https://www.ideafirecreative.com/

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