Re: Creating a Commodore64 look?

it looks like you could do it straight from ae... but you would need to create a color palette to use when rendering an animate gif (it may work for any format uses a limited color palette, gif was the only one i could think of).

you can create the 16-color palette i n photoshop. just bring that 16-color image into a blank rgb ps file. then choose image>mode>indexed color... uncheck the transparency option. the 'colors' should read 16. now choose custom from the palette pulldown, and choose save to save the palette (take note where you saved it, you will need to find it to apply the palette). once you saved it you can cancel and open ae.

in ae you can send you comp to the render queue. click the output module, and choose 'animated gif' from the format. click 'format options...' and choose 'other..." from the pulldown. find the color palette you created in ps. now you can render with only that color palette.

unfortunately you only have 'dither' as an option, it would be nice if you could use pattern or another dithering option, as you would in photoshop... but of course you could create an action in ps to convert images to indexed color with that palette and the dither options you wanted, then run that as a batch operation on an image sequence....


Kevin Camp
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