Re: King Kong Displacement map

Sure!
So you've got the photo of Kong (or whatever) and another layer with the displacement map on it (light areas for elements you want coming out at you, darker areas for elements going back). You open that in AE, go up to Effect_Distort_Displacement Map, then under the Effect Control you select the layer with the Displacement map in the drop down menu, select luminance under Use for Horizontal,then go down to Use for Vertical and turn it off (set Max Vertical Displacement to zero. Then go back up to Max Horizontal, set a keyframe and enter a minus number (like -20 for starters) then under your timeline slide over to your last frame, the go back up to Max Horizontal and enter a positive number (plus 20 now, so you've got an even before and after). Then hit the spacebar to preview the render.