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Zooming through a CRT/LCD monitor
Hello, I’m looking for help on an effect made popular by the movie “The Matrix”
It’s fairly inoccuous. The camera zooms out from (or in to) a monitor. To describe it, you see scanlines, then pixels, then the RGB breakdown right at the point where it seems the camera passes “through” the screen, and a clear picture is once again restored.
I’m looking for help on how to achieve the correct distortion to match the scanlines/pixels/rgb progression (regular size distortion is easy enough)
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!
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6 Replies
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Not sure what you’re geting at. If you need ultimate “realism” and that exaggerated curviness of old CRTs, then without a 3D program it would be close to impossible. Other than that it’s just a bunch of comps/ layers scaled and cross faded at the right points, accentuated by some cheap distortion and vignette effects.
Mylenium
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Well, as Mylenium said, kind of difficult, but not impossible.
If have Adobe Illustratr, just draw the line to look the way you want them when they are at the biggest size on screen, then reduce the file dimesions (After Effects will keep the image always sharp, no matter how much you zoom an Illustrator file).
About the RDG disrtortion, if you can afford it, there is a plugin pack from https://www.genarts.com/ called TimeWarpRGB that will make the job for you. If you cannot afford it, I suggest you create your own RGB effect by creating 3 different files (one for each color)CC Toner from After Effects can do it for you, then, apply some blur to them and delay a little bit their animaton, play with the transfer mode (Overlay, Screen…) and Opacity to try to get the look you need. -
Also try something with CC Ball Action, sometimes it works, at least for images not so close to the camera.
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Mylenium, interesting idea. That curviness/RGB breakdown of a CRT is kind of what I’m after, sort of like this, but more realistic…
https://www.flickr.com/photos/imova/22532631/in/set-521158/
What sort of texture or methodology could you think of to achieve this with a 3d app?
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Beyond actually modeling the tube shape, the 3D part would be minor. You’d still need to create the textures first, which is the part you do in AE. How to do that is pretty much up to you. Unlike Reloaded I wouldn’t bother with creating large images/ patterns – all it wil lget you is Moire
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Hi, and how I get this cc plugin I mean is there a site for it ?
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