• Adobe After Effects

  Simplistic ripple?

  Posted by Eric Chard on July 16, 2013 at 3:10 am

  (I thought this would be easy… d’oh!)

  Trying to do a simple ripple effect: in this case the ripple is a simple sine-wave on a text layer, and the ripples displace the text only horizontally. There should be ~10 ripples along the height of an “L” for instance.

  Trickier than I thought, at least for what I thought would be the logical approaches.

  Ripples should be equal across the length of the word, i.e. not radial in any way.

  THANKS!

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  Emmanuel Jimenez replied 12 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Eric Chard

  July 16, 2013 at 2:12 pm

  Got it:
  use CHECKERBOARD + BLUR to create procedural horizontal lines
  then PIXEL DISPLACEMENT on h. only.

  Trivial once I figure out that DISPLACEMENT Layers must be precomped, as the effect ignores the, errrr, effect of other effects.

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  “Putting the HARM in ‘harmonica’ since 2005.”
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  Emmanuel Jimenez

  August 5, 2013 at 5:31 pm

  Another thing you can do it blur the radio waves effect and use that as a ripple.

  Just a thought.

  I rock.

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