Today we looked at 2 techniques. The first was for creating animated backgrounds using “fractals”. The purpose was to create a simple, yet interesting animated background that could be used for title sequences, credits, web design, of just as an interesting texture in an animation.
Here is the first fractal we created, we played around with the setting until we got one we liked. We also animated the evolution, to create movement within the fractal.
We then created another fractal with different settings, we wanted something with lines, this is what we came up with. We used the vertical scale option to create this effect.
We then overlaid the two fractals and applied a color burn to the top one. This gave us this effect.
We then created a new solid and applied a ramp effect to it. This gave it a gradient fill. We then Precomposed the 2 fractals, and placed our solid above it. We then applied a multiply effect to the transfer option and it gave us this effect.
We weren’t completely happy with the animation, so we precomped what we had and duplaicated it. We then applied a luma key to the top composition to get rid of the black and rotated it 90 degrees. This gave another layer of the fractal we had just created. Here is the final result.
