this was my first attempt at recreating the look of compression artifacting. i started in photoshop, developing a stylized version of this pixelated look with still frames from youtube videos. the plan was to then move into aftereffects and create the result over time. here are two of the still images i created.
when i moved into after effects, the results were far less successful. i was key-framing this "mosaic" filter by pixel size and layering varying animations over rotoscoped youtube clips. i was hoping for something akin to these still images, in their subtle layers of ghostly pixels, where the image digitally melts out of the frame. but moving over time, it was chaotic and completely ungraceful. it looked awful. so awful infact, that i apparently erased all evidence of it from my computer. but i do have some notes of my workflow on record:
image height: 720
copy layer
levels: R = 160
copy again
filter: mosaic 17
cut out around both
less pixely layer on top: "darken" blend mode.
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