Article Focus: In this tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Carl Larsen shows you how to use the Pixel Bender Toolkit to create a recursive image set in Adobe After Effects CS4.
Daniel - it sounds like you've
by Carl Larsen on Sep 23, 2009
Daniel -
it sounds like you've downloaded the pixel bender toolkit from Adobe,but haven't downloaded the droste plug-in from Subblue.
You should fine all the instructions you need here.
http://www.subblue.com/projects/droste
Thanks for commenting!
at adobe lab's page, i have
by Daniel Block on Sep 23, 2009
at adobe lab's page, i have downloaded the dmg and installed on my mbp. it loaded the setup installer i ran it, and i was left with an odd app and some other files in my utilities folder. droste, not being one of them. i had sepia tone and some other effects but no droste.
is this still part of pixelbender's toolkit? can't figure it out
What makes you say that? It works fine for me, no jaggies whatsoever. Perhaps you just need to familiarize yourself with the various properties, or perhaps you are working with too low of a resolution image?
Hey, thanks a lot for the credit in your tutorial!!!
It sure took long to process the effects in Java compared on what's availible now..
I still don't know anything of AE, but sure want to solve that issue as fast as I can...
It seems unbelievable how easy it is now to do that sort of effects!!! That's so cool!!!
I've seen Josh also posted a comment...
He's the key element for everything that's happening right now.
Good luck to you all, and thanks for pulling the time to share the knowledge you have with others.
I think that's the best part of the internet.
Greetings from Mexico
Frank Beltran
Thank you for this great tutorial, and for helping to spread the gospel of the droste effect!
As one of the authors of the formula that forms the basis for the PixelBender plugin I am happy to see the effect blossoming in this way, and very pleased with the quality of your tutorial.
I did notice the pixel bender, i was excited about the possibilities. What i didn't notice was how blaringly fast it is, I'm going to need new socks. I mean yah you didn't show us the rendering but the live editing and update was enough for me.
One thing: I know your after the lesson itself, but if you see a way to improve the quality of the final render by quickly tweaking a setting, then you should. You could even take advantage of the time spent improving the quality of the product to add some comments you would normally have to stop the production to do, so it might not even have to cost you. Besides i think I'd rather see a higher quality result as the result of the tutorial at the cost of a few minutes. (ok i'll be honest the clocks boarder was bugging me the whole way through)
Still I must admit, your tutorials thus far have being done well, extremely well done. The only negative things i can say (and they are easier to say then to fix) about any of your tutorials are just nitpicks and meaningless to your overall result.
What im saying here is: you have become another reason i love the cow. Stick around please!
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