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  • Cigarette smoke shaped like a love heart

    Posted by Robert Bec on November 25, 2008 at 11:10 am

    HI Guys

    Clients have requested that they would like the effect where the guy blows smoke like smoking a cigarette but the smoke to be in the shape of a love heart and then fade away

    I have footage of the talent pretending to blow smoke and now i would like to manipulate it with the heart shaped smoke

    what next

    thank you

    Rob

    Ty Audronis replied 17 years, 5 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Roland R. kahlenberg

    November 25, 2008 at 5:33 pm

    Lots of ways to do this. But it’s best to know which particle plugins you have.

    BTW, ManUnited ROCKS!!!!!!!

    Cheers
    RoRK

    broadcastGEMs.com – the leader in customizable royalty-free animated backdrops

  • David Bogie

    November 25, 2008 at 6:36 pm

    Foam can be controlled to conform to a layer’s alpha information. Foam can also be manipulated to create smokish particles. Just takes some experimentation. the alpha for the heart shape should be a grayscale image with no sharp delineation between the black and white portions or particle will jump the fence.

    Foam is way cooler than ManUnited.

    bogiesan

    This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

  • Ty Audronis

    November 25, 2008 at 7:47 pm

    True there are several ways to do it in aftereffects, but don’t you have any actual 3D software? Any 3D software’s fluid dynamics should do it.

    Sorry, I know you’re posting in aftereffects and want to know it in aftereffects, but I just couldn’t help it…

    *slaps own hand…

    Ty Audronis
    Supervising Editor, California Academy of Sciences/Morrison Planetarium

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