[Sean Mullen]

Hi Frank,

Have you tried using any of the effects under color correction on your pre-comp? You could use a combination of CC Toner and Levels or Tritone and Hue / Sat., etc. This should allow you to alter the color of your cube.

Sean Mullen
Rampant Design Tools

[Sean Mullen]

Ravi,

I would pull a key of the actor on one layer, and a different one for his hair on another. Then I would pre-comp each layer separately and do a rough mask on each layer, combining the two. Then I would nest the comp and work with it as a single layer. This may not be the nicest way to operate, but this method has worked for me for many years.

Sean Mullen
Rampant Design Tools

[Sean Mullen]

Vlad,

To do this effect manually, you need to mix channel separation and frame shaking.

Channel Separation –

Apply the Set Channels Effect to your footage (Effect > Channel > Set Channels)
Duplicate your layer three times
Set your shift channels to only one color per layer, turn the rest off.
For example, layer 1 take red from red, layer 2 take green from green, layer 3 take blue from blue.
Set all layers to Add transfer mode.

Frame shaking –

Apply this to effect to each layer. Set two position keyframes, highlight the keyframes and use the wiggler. In the wiggler, set (apply to) to spatial path and (noise type) to jagged. Adjust your frequency and magnitude to your liking. Hit apply. Use the Motion Tile effect with the mirror edges option checked. Play with the output width and output height to cover any space that appears around your frame. Make sure to turn on motion blur in your comp.

Additionally you can use the wiggle expression to achieve this effect.

There are also many After Effects distortion tools on the market that can give you this look, here’s a few that I recommend:

Separate RGB from AEScripts
Data Glitch from AEScripts
Damage from DigiEffects
Twitch from Video CoPilot

I hope this helps!

Sean Mullen
Rampant Design Tools