• Adobe After Effects

  acid dripping efx…..in AE……????

  Posted by Ash-of-ae on September 10, 2007 at 3:16 pm

  Hi,
  can anyone help me plz. i want to make an effect in which acid is dropping on a paper. and where acid drops it burns or melt the paper. and some acid fumes are also coming from burn areas.
  i have used cc mr. murcury efx and cc burn film but this not very good looking. plz tell me how to make it realistic…..

  regards
  ashu

  Malcolm Desoto replied 18 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Andy Ford

  September 10, 2007 at 4:54 pm

  Is this just one drop at a time onto paper? Or like a barrel of acid falling? For things that are one drop, I like to make my own drop and splash pics in photoshop. There are many ways to do smoke, I would suggest searching for that to see which method is right for you and your level, but fractal noise is a good place to start. CC Burn is pretty decent, you may want to colorize the burn area. I suspect your problem is making this look like a chemical burn, and not a regular burn. You coudl even use liquify to distort the paper near the drop, esp if there is writing or text on the paper that woudl prolyl warp a little before beign totally eaten away by the acid.
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  Ash-of-ae

  September 11, 2007 at 12:07 pm

  hi…
  thanks for your reply….i think u r right…i want to make an efx like acid is continueosly dripping from a text on a paper or image and it burns the paper. should i go to 3d max and use blob mesh to make this dripping efx.but i don’t want to use 3d max. can u suggest some other way to do this in after effects 6.5.

  regards

  ashu….
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  Andy Ford

  September 11, 2007 at 12:42 pm

  I suppsoe you could just mask a “drop” shape in a solid layer. Then use lighting effects to make it look more 3D. The splash can be made the same way. Or, maybe you’ll find Photoshop easier to work with to make the images for that.
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  Malcolm Desoto

  September 11, 2007 at 4:23 pm

  As far as the chemical burnt paper goes, I’d just make a dulpicate layer of my paper layer and get it lookin sweet in photoshop, i.e. play with some layer modes and grunge brushes. Then I’d import that back into AE and parent it to my original paper layer. Then animate a mask around the acid splash, making it expand accordingly.

  Good luck.

  Oh, and sometimes some really nice, convincing sxf can really help sell the effect.

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