this visual was inspired by my childhood fasination of looking into tall
grass and leaves to find little bugs and critters wandering around through a more mechanical lens.
HOW IT WORKS:
this effect is actually really simple! it uses base footage of leaves which are chroma keyed to create transparency
allowing bugs to move and hide beneath the leaves.
I created this composition in after effects by compiling videos of bugs together and using a threshold effect
to keep maintain a BW value arcoss the footage, I then fed this into TD and traced and joined the footage to create an interesting wireframe.
opitionally there is also a tracker function which will block out bugs moving across the screen in a red square to make the bugs feel more like they are being found.