Camera Drifts Across a Bento — effect skill for grids & carousels

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An oversized grid of screenshots fills the frame and the camera drifts diagonally across it.

What it does

Built on Infinite Bento Pan by Kapish Dima (remocn), MIT. The write-up and recipes below are varg's.

Grid larger than the frame, slight tilt, vignette on edges; tiles may lift as the camera passes.

When: Montage of many outputs (templates, generated images, user projects) behind a headline.

Watch out: Do not drift too fast; at more than ~5% of frame width per second, nothing registers.

Timing: Constant drift 3–6 s, linear or sine.inOut; vignette 30–40% at the edges.

Also called: bento pan, infinite grid pan, 3D grid fly

In HyperFrames

npx hyperframes add pan-stations

Or animate a large grid wrapper x/y with ease:"none" for the whole clip.

In Remotion

// npx shadcn@latest add @remocn/infinite-bento-pan
const x = interpolate(frame,[0,durationInFrames],[0,-400]);
const y = interpolate(frame,[0,durationInFrames],[0,-240]);

In CapCut

Make a big grid image; keyframe Position diagonally over the clip; add a vignette effect.

Ready-made components

Where this comes from

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Example output

https://s3.varg.ai/how-to/previews/cf9bd20c1ab9/lib-codrops-scroll-3d-grid.mp4 — Preview of the On-Scroll 3D Grid Animations component that builds this take (credit: From the library’s repo (Codrops — Manoela Ilic), https://tympanus.net/Development/Scroll3DGrid/)

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