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Interesting Visual Effects

  • Writer: Courtney Jenkins
    Courtney Jenkins
  • Sep 1, 2021
  • 1 min read

I found two examples of visual effects that I would like to learn how to do. They are both GIFs that are simple yet complex at the same time.

This first GIF has a glitching effect to it that caught my eye when I first saw it. I think it would be less complicated than it looks to try and replicate the effect. It might be made by taking certain features of the base image, like the hills and trees or the road markings; copying them on to different layers; coloring the features either red, blue, lavender, etc.; and displacing them a bit every few frames, with a few horizontal lines spliced into the animation to make it seem more jagged and like an actual glitch.

This second GIF seems a lot more complicated in terms of the processes used to make it. It has elements of a glitching effect with the separation of the image into teal, red, and black, but it also has a melting effect at the same time. It looks really cool to me, for lack of a better word, and I have not even an inkling of an idea as to how it was made, but I am interested in learning the techniques used to do it.

 
 
 

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