It’s time to move out of the parent’s basement, to cut the umbilical cord, to leave the nest. When you’ve got parent layers driving the position, scale or rotation of a child layer, it can be somewhat problematic to get the same motion once the layer is unparented. This is especially true if the parent layer’s rotation is animated. Ideally, just leave the layer parented. Try “baking” the parent transform into the unparented layer.
Fooling around with a few techniques. I spent about an hour on this animation using a photo to create a particle based lilly field. It’s an interesting style. Probably more for graphics and non-figurative motion work. I originally was trying for a conceptual music video feel. The kaleido is a probably a little ridiculous but the glow is marvelous. Not finished and so not successful but you’ve got to try something different everyday.
I’ve been exploring the use of Noise HLS to reduce banding in my H264 renders. It does a pretty good job compared to Add Grain which can be slow. You would normally see banding especially below the logo. This is greatly reduced with the use of Noise HLS. Something to think about. Hmm…