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X-ray Dissolve
The internal structure and the outer shell cross-dissolve from the same camera position, then the camera pulls back to the whole device.
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Why it works
The internal parts and the shell dissolve in exact alignment, so viewers see where the chip sits inside the body. Orange bleeds in from the glow before it switches to the body, so color changes before shape and the transition has no hard jump. One camera position explains what is inside.
Spec
- Timing
- Film 10s. Macro shots: chip close-up 0–2.1s (fade in from black 0–0.7s), board and camera modules 2.1–4.3s. Dissolve shot 2.9s (87 frames): inner part drifts 4.3–5.5s (1.2s, 36 frames), accent tint 4.85–5.65s, shell fades in 5.5–6.0s (0.5s, 15 frames) while the inner layer drops to 30% over 5.5–5.8s, holds 0.2s, and reaches 0 at 6.18s; pull-back 6.0–7.2s (1.2s, 36 frames); wordmark 6.4–7.1s; settle 7.2–10.0s
- Easing
- Dissolve and tint power2.inOut (
cubic-bezier(0.65,0,0.35,1)); drift sine.out; pull-back expo.out (cubic-bezier(0.16,1,0.3,1)) with a 4-frame zero-velocity run-up, nearly stopped for the last 0.4s; settle sine.inOut; wordmark power2.out - Camera
- Perspective 24° fov. Macro shots oblique with a shallow depth of field. Dissolve shot is frontal and fixed from 5.5s; the drift before it moves about 2% of frame width per second, easing to rest. The pull-back scales 5x→1x with radial shutter blur (180°), ending with the body at 70% of frame height; the vignette tightens during the pull-back; settle push 1.00→1.025
- Subject
- Two layers composited at the same position: the inner part (chip) at weight 1→0.3→0, and the phone shell at 0→1; the accent tint is masked by a Gaussian around the chip, so it bleeds in from the chip's glow first and the brightest shell edges arrive before the body fills in
- Style
- Black background, cool white top light (spot
#dde8ff, cool-white strip lights), inner part in gray metal, shell in the accent color (cosmic orangergb(255,107,41)); ACES tone mapping at exposure 1.25, bloom, 0.022 grain, wordmark Inter 600 40px
Prompt
Build a reveal of a product's internal structure called X-ray Dissolve. Black background, cool white top light, 24° fov, ACES tone mapping, bloom and light grain. Open with two oblique macro shots with a shallow depth of field: a chip close-up (0–2.1s, fading in from black over 0.7s) and the board with its camera modules (2.1–4.3s). Then cut to a frontal fixed camera on the chip: drift very slowly (about 2% of frame width per second, easing to rest) from 4.3 to 5.5s. From the same camera position, dissolve in the shell render at the same position: tint the chip's glow with the accent color (cosmic orange) over 4.85–5.65s, fade the shell in over 5.5–6.0s with power2.inOut (cubic-bezier(0.65,0,0.35,1)), and take the inner layer from 100% to 30% over 5.5–5.8s, hold 30% for 0.2s, then to 0% by 6.18s. From 6.0s pull back for 1.2 seconds with expo.out (cubic-bezier(0.16,1,0.3,1)) with a 4-frame run-up from zero velocity, scale 5x to 1x, with radial shutter blur, until the whole device is 70% of frame height. The vignette radius tightens during the pull-back, and the product name fades in 6.4–7.1s (power2.out, blur 6px→0). Settle with a slow push of 2.5% until 10s. The two renders must be aligned exactly.
People describe it as
- The chip shows through the body, then becomes the whole device
- The parts inside slowly turn into the shell
- Like an X-ray into the device, then a pull-back
Often confused with
- Light RevealLight Reveal adjusts exposure; X-ray Dissolve switches between two images, the inner layer and the shell.
- Macro Pull-out RevealThe first half of Macro Pull-out Reveal is continuous movement across one surface; X-ray Dissolve completes a layer dissolve before pulling back.
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