Here’s a challange…

[Barend Onneweer]

Well, I’ve given it 10 minutes:

You could go for displacement mapping, but for this particular one I went with manual animation of the two pieces.

First you need to have an animated growing ice fragment. A simple mask in a wedge shape, revealed over time.

Then I created a separate composition for the Title.

This composition is then dragged into a 3rd comp (Final Comp) – together with the Animated Ice Fragment comp.

Using the Set Matte effects, I set the Ice Fragment comp as the matte for the text layer. Now I duplicate the Title layer and inverse the matte on the top layer.

Now we have the complete title, but in two fragments on separate layers.

I animate these two slightly to move apart after the crack is complete.

From here it’s playing around. I quickly added some CC Vector Blur around the cracked edge, and a blueish gradient to match the look.

You could easily add some of the extra texture and icy elements in photoshop, and reveal them using an animated mask – but I was guessing that the above part was what you needed :-). It’s still a bit crude, but I have to get back to work 🙂

Here’s my AE project. Hope together with the brief explanation it makes sense.
https://www.raamw3rk.net/externalrefs/ice_title.aep

Bar3nd

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[Andrew Kramer]

Barrend, Well done mate. Your posts have been killer!

Andrew

[Henry]

wow! your good. thanks for your detailed instruction and aep file. wow. thanks. looks great.