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The Droste Effect is that infinite zoom effect you see in photos and videos and a bunch of trippy GIFs.
A few months ago I helped a friend with something like this and recently on Reddit, and got some new insight from the users there! There are various ways to do this depending on your workflow. You could use expressions to delay time or build a cloned tunnel in 3D, to name a few. Whenever I start, I like to break down the concept as simply as possible, in this case I'll make a keyframed 2D animation in After Effects.
Mine is a 4 second loop using 1 picture duplicated 7 times. Giphy made me trim a few frames so apologies for the non perfect loop. It totally works in the project file below, I swear.
Start by centering your first image, and using the PAN BEHIND TOOL (Y), set the ANCHOR POINT on the area you want to zoom into.
Keep testing it by scaling the image up and down to make sure the zoom goes directly to the desired point.
Only after you have the anchor point perfectly placed should you DUPLUCATE the layer.
With each duplicate, first parent it to the layer below and always set the scale to the same number each time. Youll notice that as soon as you PARENT an object to the one below, you get a fresh 100% scale so you can just use the same number as long as your parenting order is the same.
This way, with each duplicate parented to the one before, you only need to add keyframes to the first picture and the rest should perfectly follow.
The final step is making sure your scale keyframes end in the location just before your first frame begins, so the loop seems consistent.
The biggest problem people have with this effect in AE is that in visual space, the difference in SCALE between low numbers and high numbers produces a curve (slowing down when it gets to the higher numbers). In order to correct this, we need EXPONENTIAL SCALE.
I included a comp without expo-scale so you can see what I mean.
All you need to do to correct this effect is select your start and end scale keyframes, right click on one of them and go to KEYFRAME ASSISTANT. You will see that there is a function for exponential scale. This corrects the math but in the bargain, puts a keyframe on every frame. Save this step for last.
Now you too can make Droste Effect images quickly and with confidence!
I hope this helps. I don't know if it is confusing or not. Ok back to work ✌🏾
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