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  Need help with animated vortex morph, thanks Steve Roberts

  Posted by Joeythedog on July 26, 2005 at 5:37 pm

  Your insight on my trip to Phoenix was helpful, And I do have a storyboard for my production. It is in my head but I can see it.

  The most involved technique I will outline.

  A digital photo/image zooms smaller into the background and as it recedes deeper it turns into a misty ghost vapor snaking in the ether. The vapor now small in the background then starts to slowly swirl into a a semi-transparent vortex of mist. Like looking down into the top of a tornado slowly spining and undulating. Out of the slowly turning vortex comes more vapor oozing forward and as it is snaking forward it turns into a line of solid text. More vapor issues forth from the slowly turning misty ethereal vortex morphing into more lines of text. The text remains for a period of time and then turns into a misty ghost like vapor again that changes to the color of the photo/image and morphs solid once again into the digital photo/image.

  I am using After Effects 6.5 pro, Photoshop CS, Illustrator, Premier Pro 1.5. Are these programs capable of creating the effect/animation described above? Do I need additional plugins such as Re:Flex. Should I be using 3d studio max and/or combustion 4? I will take the time to learn how to create this animation. I just need to know if I am using the correct tools. Will the cc plugins create the ghost like mist?

  Do any tutorials come to mind for this. At http://WWW.theanvel.com ,Dean Velez shows a mist like I am lookig for with his text distractions – free AE 6.5 text animations link. https://www.theanvel.com/TextDistractions_content.html
  The mist swirl is the fourth anim example displayed in Dean’s series. Any ideas on creating this effect?

  Thanks for your efforts and help,
  Jdog

  Steve Roberts replied 21 years ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Steve Roberts

  July 26, 2005 at 9:43 pm

  I’d experiment with the Turbulent Displace effect and the Twirl effect. You probably wouldn’t be able to do everything to one layer, so you may need to dissolve from the Twirled-turb-distorted photo to the Twirled-turb-distorted text via opacity or Transition>Gradient Wipe.

  Hope that gets you started,
  Steve

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