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warping & stretching layers

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Boosta

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Oct 10, 2008
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Hi.

Can anyone give me some pointers on how to create the effect used in this video?



I can do some of this stuff with a live app like the scratching for exanple and I know how to position and pan layers, but I dont know how to warp & stretch layers around so they become distorted like this.

Please could someone tell me the propper way to do this, I've been searching tutorials for ages but I can't seem to find anything that quite works like this in After Effects.

Thanks in advance for any help.
 
Hi muryama.

I've done a bit more research since I posted this question, it turns out Eboman uses jitter, a max msp app in which he designs his own custom effects.

I've tried displacement mapping over a 2d suraface but this is a 3d surface, how do I generate this kind of 3D shape?

The layer warping and bending effect's will not generate geometric shapes as far as I know.

Any ideas?
 
Unfortunately - - 3D requires a third party plugin - ZAXWERKS. There are many different uses for the plugin tho. You might be able to get a simulation that works in 2D, then warped.

Let me play around with this one tonight.

Ko Maruyama
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Thanks muryama.

I really apreciate any time you can spare on this.
 
You didn't figure it out?

Or do you have more difficult video to displace?

Also note: this video isn't just about a single layer, there are many different layers composited together with masks. This is no simple animation - but cut together with multiple sources.

Ko Maruyama
Free Tutorials
 
HI

I had a play around with the zaxwerks 3D warp plugins, but didn't relly get any where, to be honnest I found them a little counter intuative.

So am still stuck.
 
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