… for Apple Motion

Tip #1019: Effects Playground: Circle

Larry Jordan – LarryJordan.com

The Circle filter converts any image – still or moving – into a series of circles.

This week, I decided to explore some of the filters included with Apple Motion. This article looks at Filters > Stylize > Circle.

This converts an image – the more color variation the better – into a grid of circles. You can adjust the circle size, the amount of blur (falloff) and whether to invert them which shows the underlying grid.

For this image, I used:

• Size: 147
• Falloff: 0.22
• Invert: Off
• Mix: 100

EXTRA CREDIT

You can animate this effect by setting keyframes for Mix (part of all filter settings in the Inspector) from 0 to 100.