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how to do the subtle wiggling effect like in Juno’s intro?
Hi guys!
total noob question, I was wondering on how to do that subtle scribble like wiggling effect like the one in the intro movie of JUNO?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLb8y3xyJi0especially in the text and some of the background, where theres some slight movement.
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The ‘wiggling’ of the background, which looks like rotoscoped live action footage (i.e. it’s been traced by hand, or an effect that looks like it’s by hand) is there because the illustrator’s pen stokes from frame to frame are not perfectly accurate. This is technically an artefact of this kind of animation, though it is sometimes (like in this instance) used intentionally for the effect. It’s called boiling.
The wiggling of the text could be approximated easily in AE. Add a text layer and set keyframes for the rotation and position properties at the in and out points of the layer. Then open the wiggle panel (you can read about how the process works more fully in the help files) and use it to add a subtle wiggle to both rotation and position. A frequency of 3 per second might look about right. Then select the keyframes, right click on one of them, and choose “toggle hold keyframes”. This will mae the text “jump” from one position / rotation to the next, more closely approximating the style of the titles in the movie.
Simon Bonner
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Also, by using a range selector on your text, along with the above mentioned technique, you can take it a step further approximate the wiggling to particular letter and not the entire word. -J
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If you want the letters themselves to distort, try adding a turbulent distortion to it with an evolution fast enough that there’s no discernible progression of the distortion (so it doesn’t just look like the bottom of a swimming pool).
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As I suspected, I’ve discovered that the opening sequence for Juno is fully “handmade”, which I suspect means drawn by hand, so possibly no wiggling at all. The font itself isn’t even a font, just handwriting.
The opening sequence at title designer’s website
Designer’s Flickr album of how the sequence was made
Simon Bonner
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Hi,
I have done variations on this technique. Basically you export a file sequence of your reference movie and then use that to draw over in a program like ToonBoom.
You can do much the same thing in Photohsop CS3 Extended. Open the quicktime file in PS and draw over it. Obviously you might want to export a reference movie that runs at 4 frames per second if you are going for the choppy feeling of the Juno titles. This sort of thing works best if you work with a tablet or Cintiq monitor.
Lars
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