Share some sorts, or anything related. Your sorts, or others. If you haven't pixel sorted, go for it. Have fun with it.
What is pixel sorting? 'Pixel Sorting is done with a program called Processing. It takes the pixels in a digital image and places them into a semblance of order.'
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AE Pixel Sorter was the first tool to bring the pixel sorting glitch effect. Forget that you can upgrade your license from the previous version of AE Pixel Sorter:). AE Pixel Sorter lets you create and experiment with pixel classification in After Effects with ease. Pixel AE Sorter is the first tool that makes the pixel classification is available for motion designers and video editors.
- Pixel sorting was made popular by an artist of the name Kim Asendorf. He began sorting by developing a code in a program called Processing. You can learn more about Kim and Processing. Any other subreddits for this kind of stuff?
For arbitrary angles you could just rotate the image, sort it then rotate back nope! I dont do that at all. Such an affine transformation applied to an image would cause it to get very very garbled and 'blurry'. I kept the algorithm as 'lossless' as possible by avoiding that. Instead what I do is I internally create an interal vector field in which each pixel's red and green channel encode a 2 dimensional direction vector. The blue channel stores the black and white threshold mask for which all sorting is to take place. Sorting starts at any pixel on this matte that is next to a black pixel and then from there it integrates all these vectors from the vector field to build up a path until it hits either a black pixel or the border of the image.
The 'Max Length' option provides maximum number of intervals to take before it stops(in case it loops into itself and never terminates. With this I can give it absolutely any vector field pattern (I have some other stuff I want to add, dipole, turbulence, etc) and it will be able to navigate any sorting interval across it. Heres a bunch of bonus images I made while I was programming it Here's some related reading material on the subject: A lot of the plugins I make are made simply to enhance my own workflow but after a while I plan to make the plugin open source on my github among other plugins (I have about 6 other ones I plan to release). The specific vector field function for a spiral I made is: F(x,y) = (-y - x/2, x - y/2).
These 8 tools are a great way to give your footage digital distortion in After Effects. Adding distortion to your footage is a quick way to make your videos look awesome. In days past, motion designers had to create digital distortion in After Effects by hand, but now there are many helpful tools that we can use to create distortion and each has its own unique advantages. In the following post we’ll breakdown eight ways to create digital distortion in After Effects. Created By: Price: You can create free digital distortion in After Effects using this template from RocketStock. Essentially the template uses a series of compositions to add distortion using only native effects, so you don’t need to install anything. Simply open the free template and drop your footage into the ‘Drop Footage Here’ Composition and your distorted footage will be outputted into a final composition.
The free After Effects template can be customized using a series of sliders that adjust various effects like turbulence, color bars, and noise. Here’s a quick demo of the various features in the free AE Template. Created By: Price: The CreativeDojo is not only a great place to learn the basics of After Effects, but you can also find a big selection of useful tools that has created himself. With this awesome Glitch Script for After Effects, users can easily create customizable glitch effects by simply pressing a button. Simply select your composition and click ‘Generate Glitch’ and AE will create a composition with a control layer which can be adjusted in a similar way to the free RocketStock template.
This template is great for creating RGB chromatic aberrations. (Quick Note: While VinhSon is happy to give his glitch script away for free, why not donate a few bucks to help him out?) 3. Fractal Noise Technique Created By: Aharon Rabinowitz of Price: Free This technique pioneered by of Red Giant shows us how to create a distorted glitch box effect using native tools in After Effects. The technique is essentially a combination of the fractal noise effect mixed with a displacement map. It’s a pretty ingenious way to create distortion quickly. The tutorial also features a Red Giant tool called Holomatrix, but we’ll discus more about that below.
If you know of any ways to take this distortion technique to the next level please share in the comments below. The following tutorial shows us how this distortion technique is accomplished. Stock Footage + Displacement Map Technique By: Price: Varies Sometimes it can be easier create a distortion effect in After Effects be simply integrating with your composition. While this technique isn’t super customizable, it is incredibly easy to do. In a similar approach to the previous technique, you could integrate stock footage of a digital distortion with your composition.
There are a lot of places to find such footage, like this example video from. Having a wide variety of footage is important if you decide to go that route. This tutorial by shows us how to use this technique to quickly create distorted footage.
Created By: Price: When it comes to glitch plugins in After Effects, Twitch is where it all began. Created by of Video Copilot, Twitch allows users to create glitch effects with a simple plugin. The glitch effects that you get with Twitch would be categorized as more organic than the others found on this list, but the end result is impressive nonetheless. Created By: Price: Holomatrix is a plugin developed by Red Giant used to simulate a hologram-like effect in After Effects. The style created by Holomatrix is more like a futuristic style distortion, but it should do in most circumstances. The cool thing about Holomatrix is it can be simply dragged and dropped onto your layers!
No extra steps! Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, this effect can’t be purchased without a subscription to the Red Giant Universe which includes dozens of other great tools and plugins as well. Created By: Price: For a more TV style glitch, you can use the Glitch plugin developed like Red Giant. Glitch has very similar effect controllers to that of the RocketStock template. However, Red Giant’s Glitch is a plugin that can be used with any layer without opening or importing a separate project. Glitch focuses on colored bar distortion rather than sharp distortions.
So if you are looking to get a good ‘signal’ distortion this plugin might be for you. Red Giant offers a free trial of their Universe subscription so you can try these tools before you buy. Created By: Price: The TV Distortion Bundle is another good option if you are looking to create a distorted TV effect in After Effects.
The bundle includes Data Glitch, Bad TV, Separate RGB, Dot Pixels, and TV Pixels — all plugin’s that can be easily applied to your footage. The cool thing about the TV Distortion Bundle is the fact that these distortions can work in both After Effects and Premiere. Don’t let the high price-point scare you — these effects are great!