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Liquid letters
I have a project with a “liquid” theme. The look is not one of the surface of water, or ripples, etc. It’s more a look that you might see if you dropped a drop of colored water into clear water — with the colored and the clear interacting.
Anyway, I don’t know if that is helpful. But the bottom line is that I want to create lower thirds/CGs that maintain that look. My idea is that the text would begin as an unrecognizable flowing color, which evolves and “collects itself” to form letters. Is that clear? Are there any plugins or templates, etc. that anyone here knows of that I might consult or buy to accomplish this?
Thanks.
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Play with wave world or fractal noise and create a somewhat watery black and white thingy. Put it into a its own comp.
Bring that comp into your main comp (you can hide it if you want to)
Use it as a displacement map for your letters (along with a compound blur perhaps?) and mix in some watery background. Then keyframe the displacment (and blur) from a lot to not much.That may give you a start in the right direction.
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Whoops… I should have said that I’m not an AE pro. I use it a lot but mostly for fairly straightforward stuff. Which was why I was hoping there might be a plus in that, you know, just sort of did the liquid thing! You know that line you wrote: “You can hide it if you want to.” I don’t even know what that means.
But I love your signature line! Thanks for responding.
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Well, there is that pesky “user’s manual” thing … 🙂 We tend to avoid describing techniques that can be found in the manual.
Anyway, another way would be to apply effect>distort>turbulent displace to the text. Next, move (in the timeline) to the place where you want the letters to look normal, and set a keyframe for the effect’s amount , setting it to 0. Go back to the point where you want the text to look gloopy, and scrub (drag with the mouse) over the amount value until the text looks gloopy enough.
Tip: if you see no gloopiness, or if the edges are not gloopy, apply effect>image control>grow bounds to the text. You’ll now have two effects applied, visible in the effects window. Drag the grow bounds effect up so it is above the turbulent displace effect in the effect window. This means that the grow bounds effect is being applied before the turb displace effect. Now, scrub the pixels value in the grow bounds effect until you see gloopiness. This effectively expands the boundaries of the layer.
Steve
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Maybe this Tutorial helps you: https://www.ayatoweb.com/ae_tips_e/ae21_e.html
The things you own end up owning you.
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Thanks to all of you. I’ll take over from here and put your advice to work. But what was that reference to a manual. “Manual?” Hmmmm…
Just kidding. I did a quick scan of the index, actually, but quickly tured to the COW. Instead of RTFM, maybe it shoud be ATFC.
Thanks!
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This is slightly off topic…But I enjoy coming here to the Cow first. Why…Because I like getting first hand info. from you fine peeps here. Real world help blows the manual away. My .5 cents.
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Nice try … 🙂
Did I mention that we’re all volunteers here, and that if someone asks us to donate our time so he doesn’t have to read the manual is kind of … I don’t know … disrespectful?
We’re here to help with problems that can not be solved by reading the manual.
Steve
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[Tim Klink] “Maybe this Tutorial helps you: ” target=”_blank”>https://www.ayatoweb.com/ae_tips_e/ae21_e.html”
Ayato does great tutorials. But I’ve never seen any of his work. Does he have a showreel/portfolio site?
Love,
Alvin Seah @ HueVisualab.com
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