Engrave text onto a grave stone

[Michael Szalapski]

Bevel Alpha on a 50% grey text set to hard light.

If you do a Google search for “engrave text photoshop”, you’ll get a ton of useful tips. Those can be applied directly in After Effects or you could build it in Photoshop and use AE to place it correctly in the shot.

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[John Cuevas]

Andrew Kramer Procedural Crumble tutorial might be a good place to start.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

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—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

You can use Free Form or FreeForm Pro to create a true 3d displaced text into the surface of the stone. This will enable you to play with lights to match the footage lighting.
A good tutorial with techniques that can be used:

https://vimeo.com/107100837

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist

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