Taking it to the next step- Animated filters!

Ok, so my guess was correct, it is in fact possible to generate a smooth animation by manipulating certain controls of a filter.

Here is my first test, where i simply incremented the angle of a distortion control on a really fast rendering filter. The file is small(1.8M), and AFAIK, File Factory isn't going around inserting spyware/virus into uploaded files, and neither am I

So check it out, ill see what else i can come up with in a reasonable time frame.


Filter Forge Animation

Can't say it enough: we NEED batch render capability!

When you scroll down you should see this text
(Download for free with FileFactory Basic)

Just click that and it should take you to the downloading process. You don't need to
register to download.

boy, that site has more popups and ads than most.

Thanks uber, looks great. As for FileFactory, they even state that they pay for the service with ads so im not surprised its got popups. i have a blocker so i never saw them, sorry if i spammed anyones computer up.

Kraellin, If you upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer or use FireFox you should have sufficient Pop-Up Blocking built in.

No I don't have it but my dad does. They sort of messed with the interface so it takes some time getting used to. The security is said to be greatly impoved.

I don't know why you don't like Firefox though. Its great.

Kraellin , you can download a differnt Firefox theme if you don't like the way the default buttons/colors look.

Look here: https://addons.mozilla.org/search.php?...=downloads

Yeah, what the heck, even though im up to my neck in school projects right now, doesn't mean you guys can crap all over my glorious animated filter thread while im gone

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/sacrasm off

although i was hoping someone else would have an animated filter experiment to post too!

Well, i actually did it in a few parts, and depending on your access to programs such as 3D Studio MAX and Adobe After Effects (school is nice for that), YMMV.

I brought my saved images into Max as targas and slapped them onto a simple cube, then had Max render the frame sequence out as jpegs. Then i opened a new project in After Effects and compiled those jpegs having them output at a standard 24 FPS, into a Quicktime movie with Sorenson-3 compression. i will honestly say i don't know exactly why one would choose Sorenson-3 but i do know it keeps the file size really small, which is good.

I suppose you could just skip all that mess and go directly to After Effects to compile them. If you lack that, i believe there is a 30 free trial of Flash 8 on the Adobe website.

Since i have never used Windows Movie Maker i would not be able to honestly tell you how to trick it into doing what i think your trying to do, but from the looks of the overview i read online the program is not really made for compiling animation frames.

Anyway, the above process might not be the most efficient, but i know that it works. Other options might be brought to light by some of the other forumers.....

i hope you can get this solved, id love to see what you put together

Uberzev, rats, I only have Paint Shop Pro...

Thanks for the info, John. After Effects looks fun (and expensive).

I only started my "animation" but didn't get far, after realizing I needed a program to put the pictures into a movie. It was going to be taking a modified "liquid chocolate" filter (by Sjeiti) where I'm manipulating the stretch and angle parameters on the first two perlin noise components and then also manipulating some offset changes (with offset components that I added after the perlin noises). The short animation test looked warpy-liquid-like -- but then WindowsMovieMaker crashed...

Kraellin,

Thanks for the info!

Unfortunately I think Animation Shop 3 isn't free with PSP X (which is the version I have). I don't know why, but I just read that it's only free for the earlier versions -- which is kind of dumb in my opinion.
Anyway, I'll have to check out that Movie Maker 3... (I'm not sure if those camstudio/camtasia programs would work for what I want, but I'll look into that too.)
I may just buy that AS3 program or something similar -- it's just I sort of need to be judicious with my meager income...

Thanks for the info, Kraellin. Photostory 3 seems to work (with a minor bug), so thanks! But there's still the laziness factor -- those animations take waaayyy too much effort! (But I still have hopes of making a small animation eventually, though...)