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frayed, cloudy mask
Hi folks, I’m trying to do a DVD-Menu with a special effect: The Background consists a Video (about 20 sec) which should have a frayed mask and parts of it should be transparent like in this picture:
I’ve tryied some things but I didn’t get the right look. Tried “Matt Dallos” Tutorial “Creating Fire with Fractal Noise” (till point 6 where he adds the fire) to get such a frayed mask which worked but it’s still not like in the picture above, the outlines are too sharp and the whole inner circle of the outline is too clean, there should be some dirt like hairs and scratches of an old movie…
Hope somebody can help me, I’m not pro but have good understanding skills and know After Effects pretty well 😉
PS: Matt Dallos’ Tutorial: https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=1&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/dallos_matt/fire/index.html
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Sponge almost dried watercolour onto highly textured paper. Smear. Scan in. Layer as you see fit.
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Hi RobotHero, could you please be a little bit more precise… you mean i’d take brush, paper and (real) watercolor to create this effect? how do i get an animated mask out of a scanned watercolor-painting (i could only take it as a Background)? and what do you mean with “layer as you see fit”?
ok, sorry for all the questions but as mentioned above i’m not a pro so please understand my “beginnerish” questioning 😉
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Do a search for “track matte.” It’s a very good thing to know about. If you just paint a blotch on paper, you can use it as a track matte on the layer you’re showing through. Sometimes doing something physically is easier than trying to replicate the look in computer.
I guess the painting itself would be still. If you want something moving, you could shoot some ink pouring into an aquarium. Or use fractal noise, and use the painting as a track matte on the fractal noise, or vice versa. Or make it wiggle by using a wiggle() expression. (Do a search on “wiggle,” it’s also a good thing to know)
Or any combination of these methods, layered as you see fit. Which basically means, you can layer them with darken, lighten, multiply, use one as a track matte on the other, or whatever to an infinite number of possible combinations.
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