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Tip #1084: Effects Playground: Time Tunnel

Larry Jordan – LarryJordan.com

This is a fun, fast and fascinating effect, with lots of opportunities to play.

Ever wanted to travel through a worm hole? Now you can – and Motion creates it. (This looks better when it is moving than as a still.)

Here’s how to create this:

• Drop Generators > Cellular into the Viewer.
• Select the Cellular element, then, in Inspector > Generator change:
• Gradient change the color on the right. (You can use any other color scheme you like.)
• Size: 3
• Speed: 0.5
• With the Cellular element selected, apply Filters > Stylize > Slit Tunnel. Then, in Inspector > Filters, change:
• Speed: 5
• Perspective: 0.3
• Glow: 0.02
• Change the glow color to radioactive green.

Done.

EXTRA CREDIT

• Position and/or animate the center of the tunnel elsewhere in the frame.
• Replace Slit Tunnel with Slit Scan and watch what happens.