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  • Adding smoke to text (like heat smoke on food)

    Posted by Scotty Pupkin on December 7, 2006 at 6:12 am

    Hi

    AE 7
    G5

    I’m working on a commercial and want to have the text smoke but only for a few seconds , then fade away…The text fades up and has a Wave effect. I want the smoke to come off the top part of the letters and then fade away…I was playing around w/ Particular smoke but didn’t get what I was looking for.

    Can anyone help? The client is peaking his big nose in the edit bay every 20 mins..fast help is appreciated.

    Thanks a lot.

    Manuel Rámila replied 13 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Mylenium

    December 7, 2006 at 8:55 am

    Mask out the area of the text that is supposed to “steam”. Put it in a pre-comp. Enable the 3D switch and use the pre-comp as a layer or layer grid emitter. For the smoke, use custom particles. The particle shape yould be a blurred hollow circle with a low opacity. This creates more opaque areas where they overlap, but the smoke is mainly transparent and looks whispy. modulate the motion using Wind and turbulence. Make the vertical movement driven by a negative Gravity setting, not Velocity. if you particles become to fast, add Air Resistance.

    Mylenium

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  • Scotty Pupkin

    December 7, 2006 at 9:32 am

    Thank you so much Mylenium….I’m trying this first thing in the morning when I get to work. I’ll let you know how it comes out. I APPRECIATE IT BIGTIME dude!

    thanks

  • Manuel Rámila

    October 30, 2012 at 8:10 pm

    Thank you so much for this lesson. I owe you one of the pizzas I’m promoting. A smoky one, of course 🙂

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