flowing blood

[Mike Bohatch]

I actually used a technique that worked really well without having to do any complex AE process…
Which was ….

stand a few pieces of paper upright
and slowly pour black ink down them while filming them with your digital camcorder.
capture that back into AE
Invert them, add curves to tighten the contrast up, and apply a Red solid “hardlight” over top
this will produce Red blood look over a black background.

This is nice because the flow of the ink is entirely natural and you can slow up the video to get the right “feel

hope that helps

Mike

[Larynx]

thanks for the response but what i’m trying to do is create blood gushing (like a waterfall) out between the pages of a closed book.
i’m looking for a solution using some sort of plugin, if possible.

[Larynx]

thanks for responding, but i need the blood to flow out from a book and then to open the book to reveal cretain parts (some text and images) of the pages.
i don’t think i can pour the ink with such percision to be able to do that.

[Tim Klink]

This one might help: https://www.panopticum.com/ae/water/water.shtml

But I don’t got any Idea if it’s a good one or if its crap. So I hardly don’t know anything about it. But I think you can downlad a trial and test it.

t1MAe

The things you own end up owning you.

[Derrick]

Maybe Particle Illusion in conjuction with AE can help with this. http://www.wondertouch.com

Otherwise Blender3D’s new version 2.4 has a cool fluid Dynamics engine build in http://www.blender3d.org, so there you can create exactly what you need in 3D, ofcourse it won’t be very easy though, but you’ll be in full control.

– Derrick

[Larynx]

thanks, i’ll try it