• Adobe After Effects

  Animating water colour backgrounds

  Posted by Presto on August 30, 2005 at 2:37 pm

  Ok. This is tough to describe so bare with me a moment…

  I don’t know if anyone has happened to catch that Bud Lite commercial where they have a camera flying through all these beautiful outdoor backgrounds that look kinda like water colour paintings with people keyed in over it. The theme of the commercial is, guys getting away to the cottage to fish but then hooking up with the ladies a couple cottages down so the fish don’t have to be too worried.

  In that commercial all the scenery looks as though its flowing like water colour paint does when you put it on on paper. The colours slowly grow and expand a bit and bleed in to each other.

  I realize if you don’t know the commecrial that the description I gave is hard to visualize.

  This is the closest example I could find on the web. Gp to
  http://www.mk12.com and look at the “Sunken Lust” quick time movie.

  I would like to learn how to do that. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what you think they are doing to achive that result.

  All I’ve come up with so far is animating masks shape to reveal it.

  As always any help suggestions or ideas are welcome!

  Thanks in advance

  Presto

  Presto replied 20 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Michael Szalapski

  August 31, 2005 at 10:54 am

  Living in the UK as I am we don’t have Bud Light or advertising for said product. I haven’t had a chance to look at the Sunkenlust thing either.

  But if you want a drawn/watercolour look you could do worse than duplicating your layer, blurring it a bit, and changing the blend mode to darken.

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  Presto

  September 1, 2005 at 1:13 pm

  That’s a great idea and a good strat to what I’m trying to do. The biger problem is trying to bring life to the layer to have it look like paint spreading or slowly soaking in to the paper.

  Your idea lead me to try using differnt transfer modes on the top blured layer that created some really nice filter effects. I espicaly like using the ADD transfer mode to create a nice glow to footage.

  Thanks for your help.

  Presto

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