After Effects Blur Effect (should be simple)

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I was just recently trying to learn this effect and I forgot how I did it.

http://www.presidio.com/presidio/index.html

Go there, let it load and press the ‘product alliances’ button. You can see that when the white box sort of zooms and blurs in.

This should be somewhat easy, I just can’t figure out how they are doing it.

Thanks,
Sharif :).

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off the top of my head i can think of two ways,

1: using the camera in ae and the image as a 3d object, then playing around with depth of field to get a angled blur.

2: using skew and some blur filters(even the layer motionblur) then keyframing position and filters.

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I could’ve sworn there was a filter that blurred the image so it comes toward the camera.

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just moving the layer around (skew/sketch/distort) while comp’s layer motionblur is on wouldn’t work ???

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you saying this wouldnt work? or asking if sharif has tried it?

i meant to say including the layer motionblur option. in any case it is some sort of bluring or out of focus effect.

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so effects like this can only be created in AE. is there another way, perhaps with photoshop doing some blue effects on it and sketch, skew…etc and just key framing it all together???

besides ive tryed to export some nifty work i have out to .swf but nothing happens< what should do to fix that???

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Photoshop can do a blur that comes to the camera. I think I can keyframe a bunch of blurs together.

Thanks anyways :).

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a bit of advice, ae can use most all photoshop filters (most of the default PS filters are provided in AE), and if you set up a animation in ae you can export it to sequence of images (tiffs, jpgs, pngs. gifs) ,might be a little easier.

Using photoshop to make the animation might get a little tedious.
…just some advice , do with it what you want…:bad:

:smirk:

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No you’re absolutely right. Thanks for the advice :beer:!

I just wish AE could export transparently like pngs. Wait - image sequence of pngs does that right :)?

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yeah it should.