• Adobe After Effects

  Text smoke effect

  Posted by Peter on June 26, 2005 at 1:36 pm

  I am just finishing a piece of work. Some thanks out there to the forum btw.. it has been a great help.

  Anyway I have a nice animation with a mist/smoke effect as a component. I would like to have the mist turn into the opening credit. I guess one would do this back to front and reverse the sequence.Start with the text and break it up over time I guess seems a logical way to begin.
  Just not sure exactly where to start.
  If anyone can help I will be gratefull. Hey I would be over the moon 🙂
  Thanks again for an excellent resource..
  Trug

  Peter replied 20 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Mike Clasby

  June 26, 2005 at 11:00 pm

  There are several particle systems that will do it, Particular and Particle Illusion. Also Fractal noise makes smoke and clouds to taste, but belows is a fast and easy way, maybe it’ll work for you.

  Type Text.

  Shatter with 50+ repetitions, gravity 0.
  In wireframe mode with Forces, you can move the forces to get an explosion the direction you want.

  Scatter, start at 0, go up to 50 or so by the end.

  Blur to get smoke:

  CC Vector Blur (I like vector blur but this is optional), directional center 0 to 15-20 at end.
  Fast Blur (or your favorite blur) to taste, 0-blurry at end.

  Fast Blur (or your favorite blur) to taste.

  Reverse the clip, there are several ways, but Time Stretch at -100 will do it.
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  Peter

  June 27, 2005 at 6:57 am

  Thanks a lot.
  I will give it a try. At least I know where to start now. Some of these
  shatter and partical components I just have avoided using. Now is the
  time to experiment
  Cheers again
  Trug

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