Using Anime Studio Pro 11 and the new referenced layers feature I was able to create this illusion:
Animated Optical Illusion
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Great Effect...
Any script for that? Or you made it all ?
Any script for that? Or you made it all ?
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Nice! could you explain how references got involved on it?






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No script needed. 100% Anime Studio Pro 11
The file can be downloaded from here:
http://www.animestudiotutor.com/freebie (only this month)
For the illusion to work, the animation is split into four frames (it could be more or less, but four to five works best). I created the animation on one layer, then using reference layers, I copied it four times, then masked these to show only the parts needed.
Any changes to the main animation layer are then updated to the other layers and the final illusion image is automatically made.
The file can be downloaded from here:
http://www.animestudiotutor.com/freebie (only this month)
For the illusion to work, the animation is split into four frames (it could be more or less, but four to five works best). I created the animation on one layer, then using reference layers, I copied it four times, then masked these to show only the parts needed.
Any changes to the main animation layer are then updated to the other layers and the final illusion image is automatically made.
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Great, im gona do some experiments with it. Thank you for the post.
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Thank you. I love this kind of experiments.






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That just wrinkled my brain 

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