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  How to create a simple “water-wiggle” effect

  Posted by Guilherme Maueler on June 12, 2013 at 4:54 pm

  hey guys!
  i’ was given a quick task today that seems simple, its animating this graphic element mimicking water invading the whole composition (i’ve included the animatic for it below), does anyone know of a way to make this without having to labouriously animate a mask path on a solid? Thats the only way i can think of doing this, and it would be kind of a pain 🙁

  Here’s what i’m talking about: https://184.172.153.221/~estud579/temp/water_animation.mov

  John Cuevas replied 13 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  John Cuevas

  June 12, 2013 at 5:38 pm

  You could use some Ink or Water Splash footage and use that as a luma matte to reveal your image/layers below.

  Creating Ink/Water transition can also be faked pretty easily using fractal noise(or a particle system), especially if the transition is fairly quick.

  Johnny Cuevas, Editor
  Thinkck.com

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