Topograph

Topograph brings elevation maps and topography to After Effects! This effect lets you create unique designs and animations from your footage. It can be used for animating and for designing on one frame with interactive feedback.

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Description
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Generate typographic maps

Topograph takes an image, a video or any source, like fractal noise, and generate an elevation map out of it.

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A Design Tool

More than just maps, you can use Topograph for all sorts of design process, as much for print as for motion design.

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Easy to animate

Topograph’s intuitive UI has a lot of control over animation.

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A good typography companion

The effect also works well on any type and can be easily used for designing titles.

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Be Creative!

Share your work using #topographplugin on Instagram.

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How it works

Topograph transforms an input image into a 3D landscape, then horizontally cuts the cake at several altitudes. It then draws the contour of each layers on a 2D image.

Documentation

The full documentation can be found here: topograph.gabgren.com

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Tutorials

Overview Tutorial

Discussions

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Version History

1.0.4 -

Dec 12, 2022

- Fixed support for Mac M1

1.0.2 -

Oct 4, 2019

- Fixed licensing issues related to network users

1.0.0 -

Jul 7, 2019

- Initial release :)

Compatibility

After Effects

2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017, CC 2015.3, CC 2015

Media Encoder

2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017, CC 2015