Does anyone have any tips on how to animate a WRITE-ON effect on this drawing?

[Filip Vandueren]

I think it would be handier to expand the pier-image to a few different layers in photoshop, that you can mask-animate one by one, just animating the masks; or adding some wipes might be all you need.
But by breaking it up in smaller portions, you’ll save yourself the headache of oddly-shaped masks.

As for the image of the sea, take a look at the combination caustics + wave world, it may be all you need. I’m sure there are plenty of tutorials around for that stuff.

Or, for something a bit closer to your look try this:

• create a solid with fractal noise (low detail)
• Add a posterize filter (7 levels is ok)
• add a Find-Edges filter, tick eth invert box
• now animate the evolution and maybe sub-offset of the fractal noise

That gives you the lines you have, add them to anoother bluish fractal noise and tweak untill it comes close to your still-design.

[Daniel Haskett]

Cool man, thanks for the reply that was really helpful!

I was just wondering about adding the blueish fractal noise layer to it…how do I do that? sorry for sounding stupid, I tried making a new blue solid and adding fractal noise but I dont think that worked…

Thanks for any extra help!

Dan

[Filip Vandueren]

Hi Dan,

you can use the “mode”-setting in the fractal noise layer and set it for instance to “hard-light” or “overlay”, to combine the grey noise with the blue of your solid,

or if you keep it to normal you can remap the greyscale noise using a “tint” (simple)or “colorama filter” after the noise.

(fex. try the carribean preset under Ouput Cycle Presets).