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Spike Jonze was responsible for that video, so I’m assuming he had some cash to throw around.

[Akiranakayama]

I can imagine that painting the shadows back in underneath their feet was a bit of a PITA. Good stuff, though. Spike Jonze, workin’ it.

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Here’s a little article written by the guy who developed the software and served as animation super for Waking Life.

https://www.g4tv.com/techtvvault/features/23423/Rotoshop_Animation.html

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They are using a proprietary software program called Rotoshop. From what I understand, animators can define on certain keyframes what features to track and what strokes to track to those defined features and the software will interpolate and warp those drawn strokes over a couple of frames. Then the animator will have to go in a few frames later and coerce those strokes back to more closely follow the features on the underlying footage. This may explain the subtle floaty-ness of the final renderings. I believe it was once available to be licensed for use, but now they seem to be pulling back on it. Not to sure about that one though, so don’t quote me. Cool stuff either way…..

[Akiranakayama]

I was actually trying to do this last night in one of my comps. I want to rig up a tick-marked circle to rotate based on the average luminance of an image or image sequence. Or maybe just a pixel within that image. Is there a way to derive the luminance data so that it can be used (in an array I’m assuming?)??????

[Akiranakayama]

I was actually trying to do this last night in one of my comps. I want to rig up a tick-marked circle to rotate based on the average luminance of an image or image sequence. Or maybe just a pixel within that image. Is there a way to derive the luminance data so that it can be used (in an array I’m assuming?)??????

[Akiranakayama]

I just called Adobe customer support and asked how I can create artwork like the stuff on the box. There has to be a filter somewhere that does that right?

[Akiranakayama]

YES! That’s what I’m talkin’ about. Sweet! Thanks for the reply, it’s greatly appreciated.

[Akiranakayama]

YES! That’s what I’m talkin’ about. Sweet! Thanks for the reply, it’s greatly appreciated.

[Akiranakayama]

“Hi
one way
create two sliders rename it to x + y for example
add this expression

x=thisComp.layer(“Null 1”).effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”);
y=thisComp.layer(“Null 1”).effect(“Slider Control 2”)(“Slider”);
z=position[2];
[x,y,z]

but let’s see what dan or mylenium suggest”

Thank you for the reply! That is a great suggestion, and one that I have toyed with. I guess I am looking to do it using something like this:

x=position[0];
y=position[1];
z=position[2];
[x.wiggle(1,2),y.wiggle(1,2),z]

And I would replace the freq: “1” and amp: “2” with links to slider controls on a null. Can someone tell me what is wrong with the logic in this expression? Cuz I know it is!

So I guess I want to be able to animate on this layer, but then take the animated “x” property and wiggle it varying amounts that I can define with a slider. So that most everything is contained within one expression with the wiggle freq and amp being contained on another null.

Thanks guys!