COW Tutorials: After Effects Fun with Ink

[Colin Braley]

Nice tutorial….I like the idea of creating the ink with the CC particle system it works well.
~Colin

[Sam Young]

great tutorial, thank you!

if i may add something…

instead of having to render out frames of the ink-splat, that you made in your particle world comp, as photoshop still images, you could simply nest that composition in another comp where the ink splats would show up, and apply an expression to the nested comp’s time remap property that randomly chooses a frame from that nested comp’s duration? something like:

(applied to to remap:)

seedRandom(1,true);
random(1,outPoint)

this chooses a random frame from the nested comp between 1 second (or about the point when the ink splats start to take shape) and the out point of the nested comp.

this way, whenever you make a duplicate of this nested comp, each duplicate would show a different ink splat, and there would be no need to render & import still images.

just a suggestion….

[Andrew Kramer]

Thanks guys. Nice tip Sam, Very Clever. Another cool tip is to use the turbulent displace to add a little more “mess”iness to the ink. I created some good result and forgot to include it in the tutorial… It turned out longer thatn expected.

One of my favorite things to do is create organic effects within after effects, Particle systems, fractal noise, displacement maps… Fun stuff. I hope everyone can experiement with the particle setting and create other unique effects.

Best,
Andrew Kramer

[Mylenium]

Nice tute. Interesting to see someone still using the “old” particle systems that come with AE. ;O)

Mylenium

[Pour Myl

[Tyler Paul]

Sweet. I just watched the premiere of Afro Samari with Mr. Sam Jackson. They used the ink blot (well blood) effect in it’s Opening Theme. Very cool, thanks.

[Aeprowannabe]

anyone else having problem trying to view this tut? its either downloading/playing about 1 min than stoping or not playing it all….

[Sam Moulton]

a always have trouble with the new flash tutorials. even though i’ve got a cable connection and a loaded new mac the audio stutters and shakes. I have no trouble with other high data rate downloads from other sites. I don’t think it’s a download speed issue. I think there’s a problem with however the video is encoded in flash. There are some other sites i routinely visit with flash tuts that are older and play fine.

I usually resort to the podcast versions. safari or opera or even ie for mac, still same trouble. my pc is old so ive never tried but i much prefer the older way of doing the video tuts in QT.

[David Eells]

I’m getting the same problem. Firefox 1.5.0.9; OS 10.4.8; DP G5 1.8; 2.5gb ram

[Andrew Kramer]

I’ve undated the settings to be a bit more universal.

Refresh the pages and give it a try.

Andrew.

https://www.VideoCopilot.net
Tools for Video Professionals

[Sam Moulton]

thats much better for me. it would be nice of all the flash tuts on the cow site could be redone with those settings.