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Turning 2d image into animation
Ok, so I have a single color image of swirls on a blank background. I want to animate this so it starts off as a single pixel, and grow out along the swirls to make the original image. I was wondering what the easiest way to do this would be. I was originally thinking keyframing a mask, but looking at the complexity and the number of swirls I have, I could easily spend an 8 hour day just doing the keyframing.
What would be really cool, is if there was an effect or plugin where you could click on your image with a paint bucket or similiar tool where you wanted the animation to start, have settings such as how fast the color spreads, and over how many seconds you want it to take to completely spread out. This would make life so much easier, and I can’t believe such an effect doesn’t exist and I just don’t know about it.
So my question, is there an easier way to do this than the masking and/or does anyone know of such an effect or plugin that would do this any easier.
I have Photoshop, After Effects, and Premiere Pro CS4.
Thanks!
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by blank background i assume you mean on transparent background….
if all you want to do is fill the opaque area of the swirl with an expanding color, you might try the circle effect (in generate effects) setting the blending mode in the effect to stencil alpha. this will limit the ‘circle’ to the edges of the swirl. then you can animate the radius to expand over time to fill the shape.
is this what you are after?
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or a soft mask reveiling the swirls, the mask shape you could animate to not have just a circle revealing the swirls.
a in-between method would be draw a line-mask following the swirls (more or less) and apply a stroke-reveal image-effect with the stroke at the thickness of the swirls and a bit soft. Now you have control over what gets revealed first, if you do it in many masks you can have it to reveal one by one, or all at the time. -
You might find videocopilot’s evolution package interesting for that purpose, if you don’t absolutely have to use your original swirls.
https://www.videocopilot.net/products/evolution/ -
Thank you everyone for your ideas. I do have to use the original artwork. I actually found a tutorial on here for growing vines with the write-on tool, which seems to mimic almost exactly what I was hoping to accomplish.
This is about a third of the full graphic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkzGNnNUUHU
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