Glitcher

Beautifully broken.

Turn clean footage into fractured signals, drifting pixels and worn video. Combine pixel sorting, datamosh effects, screen tears, analogue damage and low-resolution textures in one creative toolkit.

Being developed for DaVinci Resolve on macOS. OpenFX plugin.

Inside Glitcher

FROM A SUBTLE FAULT TO A TOTAL BREAKDOWN

Make the damage your own.

Pull the pixels apart.

Sort pixels by brightness, hue, saturation or colour channel. Follow straight, diagonal, curved or motion-aligned paths, then break the pattern into interrupted runs.

Let time come loose.

Stretch motion into datamosh effects, hold scattered blocks of an earlier frame, and layer delayed echoes. Add stutters, back-jumps and channel timing offsets.

Lose the signal.

Tear the frame, slip scanlines, roll the picture and interrupt the signal. Build gradual damage or short bursts with adjustable attack and recovery.

Wear down the image.

Combine chroma bleed, noise, dropouts, RGB separation and CRT curvature. Reduce the resolution, limit the palette and add dithering for a deliberately low-fidelity finish.

Choose where it breaks.

Guide the damage with brightness, colour, motion, shape or external masks. Adjust the blend and reorder effect stages to build a different result from the same ingredients.

Start with a look. Keep exploring.

Twelve starting looks range from Worn VHS and Cracked CRT to Pixel Rain and Motion Melt. Create repeatable variations with a seed, and lock timing, colour or structure while you experiment.

TAKING SHAPE AT THE FOUNDRY

Glitcher is taking shape.

Glitcher is currently a development alpha. A public release, pricing and confirmed system requirements have not been announced. We’ll share them here when they’re ready.

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