One of my students saw this type of effect on a website and asked me how to do it. I put this together for her and I thought I’d share it with you.
This project has a precomped gradient with a mosaic effect applied. The main comp has the text and the genuine faux-punker and the precomped gradient comp. The gradient comp’s visibility is turned off. A gradient wipe is applied to both the punk rock girl and the text, using the gradient comp as the gradient source. The transition is, of course, keyframed.
The project file contains the effect on the text but not the image. The image is courtesy of iStockPhoto.
Download Project file (AE 7)
