Pop-Art effect advice

#1

Hi there, I was wondering if someone could recommend a cool plug-in or technique for achieving the background effect in this image:

Ideally i’d like to create some kind of gradient background, and apply the effect on top. The effect at the very least would give it the ‘pop art’ type look seen above. And ideally, it would even have some form of animation on the actual effect itself. (such as the circles enlarging / shrinking)

Also, as another question - linked to the same project; how could I have a compositions scale attribute driven by sound most easilly?

Thanks for all your help, and I’ll share the final effect with you once it’s all done!

#2

That is simply Sapphire Halftone quite, quite obviously. You can find similar plug-ins from otehr vendors everywhere. With vanilla AE, you can always use Particle Playground, Card Dance and CC Pixel Polly or other techniques. And no, you cannot scale a composition, you can only scale a layer (which may be a pre-comp). Check your terminology! How to do this with sound, takes a 5 second search on Google…

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#3

Sapphire is roughly $1700, so a free alternative might be Pete Warden’s halftone effect in his collection, if it still works in CS5.
http://petewarden.com/PluginHelp.htm

Tutorial using Card Dance
http://chriszwar.com/wordpress/2009/02/halftone-effect-using-card-dance/

You could also run every frame through Photoshop using an Action to open it, apply it, and save it, then doing the next frame.

And linking a parameter to an audio file is shown in this tutorial. You’ll have to adapt the technique to your precise use.
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/audio_to_animation/

Another tutorial
http://library.creativecow.net/articles/al_khatib_talid/volume_meter.php

#4

Thankyou.

I’ll use Sapphire for the Halftone effect and trapcode soundkeys for the sound driven text.

#5

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