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Tip #496: A Very Cool Time-Warp Effect

Larry Jordan – LarryJordan.com

From humble roots come eye-catching effects.

Here’s a very cool way to create a time-warp effect. I’ve never used this in real-life, but I teach it in all of my Motion classes, because it is fun to play with and teaches an important lesson. Here are the steps.

• In Motion, add Generators > Cellular into a project.
• Change the color gradient from black to white, to medium-dark blue to black.
• Select Cellular in the Layers panel and apply Filters > Stylize > Slit Scan.
• In Inspector > Properties, rotate the group so the blue flares radiate up-left.
• In Inspector > Filters:
• Change Center so the white line is in a lower corner
• Change Speed to 15.
• Change the Glow color to a radioactive green.

Then, change anything else you want.

The lesson this teaches is that we can take something very “blah” and make it eye-catching simply by using a few filters.

EXTRA CREDIT

What what happens when you replace Slit Scan with Slit Tunnel.