[Wim Bruyninckx]

What about using a displacement map with turbulent noise as a source layer?
Not sure if you can get to these extreme wisps / distortions but this would be my first thing to try.

[Wim Bruyninckx]

Hi,

i am not sure if i understood well what you want to achieve but…
if you want to cut out a part of a shape that has a clipping mask, you should use a clipping mask on a clipping mask instead of a compound path…

Kind regards,

wim

[Wim Bruyninckx]

Hi,

valueAtTime is something that may be useful for you

i don’t think it’s necessary to use a parent null layer..
i would just keyframe the position from one layer from point A to B, and then for each of the other layers: add an expression for the position:

thisComp.layer(“animated_layer”).transform.position.valueAtTime(time-2);

where thisComp.layer(“animated_layer”).transform.position is the pick-whipped position value of the keyframed layer

valueAtTime(time-2) where 2 is the time offset … you can change this value of course…

hope it helps

Wim

thisComp.layer("animated_layer").transform.position.valueAtTime(time-2);

[Wim Bruyninckx]

Hi Sasha,

maybe you can try this out:

1. I would position all your layers in a way you want them aligned
2. then i would add a null object layer ( in my example layer(“Null 1”).effect(“RandomFactor”) )with an expression effect > slider
3. on every layer i would paste the following code in the position value :

seedRandom(index,true);
rX = random(-200,200)/100 ;
rY = random(-200,200)/100 ;
[position[0]+thisComp.layer(“Null 1”).effect(“RandomFactor”)(“Slider”)*rX,position[1]+thisComp.layer(“Null 1”).effect(“RandomFactor”)(“Slider”)*rY]

which basically means : take your current position and add/subtract a percentage of a random value..
the percentage is controlled by the slider in the null object…

in the code above the random value range goes from -200 till +200 but you can change that if you want…

hope it helps,

Wim

[Wim Bruyninckx]

value = Math.floor((random()*20))*5

generates numbers divisible by 5, and a maximum of 100.
(in fact it generates random numbers from 0 to 20 (the first value in bold) multiplied by 5 (the 2nd value in bold)

[Wim Bruyninckx]

make sure you precomposed the fractal layer, otherwise it won’t work

[Wim Bruyninckx]

Hi,

not sure of this will help you but;

I would suggest to use the nifty expression sampleImage() in the scale property layer
of each comp you want to scale in your array :

the expression would be:
100*[thisComp.layer(“GreyscaleMap”).sampleImage(position)[0],thisComp.layer(“GreyscaleMap”).sampleImage(position)[0]]

position = the position of your current comp you want to scale
where GreyscaleMap = your fractal map…
multiply it by 100, because sampleimage returns a value between 0 and 1.

Kind Regards

Wim

graphic designer / illustrator

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[Wim Bruyninckx]

Hi,

I would suggest to toy around with a displacement map effect on your footage.
The displacement map would be a precomposed turbulent noise layer. In the turbulent noise layer, i would start with animating the evolution.

Greets

[Wim Bruyninckx]

Hi,

my solution without precomposing:

1. add an adjustment layer in your current composition and put it on top of your layer stack
2. add a mask in that layer, (in your case an ellipse)
3. add the effect > extract
4. in the extract effect settings > check the ‘invert’ option

this is a useful solution when you want to mask out a certain region in your comp, without precomposing (so all your layer relations stay intact)

happy masking!

Wim