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Water Effect. “wash” in an image
I’m making name cards for a documentary, and I’d like to have them kind of water wipe in sort of like a spill of water, with it dripping off at the end.
Any ideas on how I’d go about making that effect?
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Or really… any water-like effects at all.
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AE doesn;t really have good water effects of the kind you’re describing. However, there is a plugin that does exactly that:
Aharon Rabinowitz
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Ok Thanks.
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There are some effects that can be manipulated to resemble water. The details of how these effects work vary and which effect(s) you would use depends on your goal. However, you could take a look at them, here’s my short list of recommendations:
CC Blobbylize (use a grayscale map to define the ‘bumps,’ perhaps generated with Wave World, you can use the Cut Away property to remove portions of the rendering similar to ice melting)CC Glass (like blobbylize but without the ability to cut away)
CC Glue Gun (similar to the Write On effect, but generates liquidy blobs)
CC Mr. Mercury (a rudimentary particle system that generates liquid metal looking blobs)
These are worthwhile to play with even if they don’t give you exactly what you’re looking for. The grayscale maps you use to drive some of them can be used in combination with displacement maps or caustics to generate pretty good looking effects… it takes some time (and adjustment layers!) to put it together.
I’m considering putting together a tutorial for generating an ‘ice’ look that will cover some of these techniques… we’ll see if my time permits me =O
Darby Edelen
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Let me know if you do!
I’ll try some of these out.
Thanks,
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Have you considered trying to do this practically? Get some black card/painted wood and milk. You’d probably be able to do a number of takes even with the card and would end up with a natural luma matte. ALternatively, black background and well lit water and use an animated mask, that way you’d be able to keep the reflections of the water.
Just a thought
Graham
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