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How Do I? (Make text bleed & POV)
I’m in the process of doing a retro kind of horror film, and in the opening credits I want the title sequence text to basically… bleed – drip blood. Does anybody know how to do this? I’m editing with Final Cut Pro 5.0.
Also, the film is in POV. In many POV films that I have seen, I have noticed that there is like a “darkened border” effect. In which the focused image is in regular lighting, but surrounding parts are a bit darker. It’s a little difficult to explain, but hopefully you guys can grasp what I am intending. Any help on how to do this?
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Well, you can likely do this straight on now in Livetype or Boris.
But I still like using “old school” organic elements. White foamcore board and a squeeze bottle of chocolate syrup. Lay the foam core flat on the studio floor. Draw out a horizontal line with slight varience in squeeze pressure, then tilt the board up to make it run down. Shoot it, under flat lighting.
The thickness is just right for blood, smells and cleans up way easier than paint or ink. Shoot several takes with the board at diferent tilts to control the speed. Use the hi-con key matte you generate from this in Final cut, Motion, or AE and place it so it “attaches” to the bottom of the letters. Make it red as you like.
Son of Svenghoolie lives!
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The POV effect you refer to is “vignetting”. Easy to d with filter plug-ins or just a circle or rectangular wipe/crop with very soft edges.
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Mark, I LOVE your “old school” solution. Its so refreshing to hear an ‘outside of the box’ way of doing an
effect. Ive done a similar thing with rain droplets on glass after a storm.
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Ive also had success manually animating masks, (time consuming) and using re-visions shade shape plug-in to the result. Its got some nice controls to give your “fluid\blood” some real good texture and feel.Scott
SuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
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Just wanted to chime in and show you a tutorial I put together for shooting organic stuff. I shot black ink running down a white wall, and used RE:Vision’s Shade / Shape to get the final rendered effect of water.
Here is the tutorial
https://www.stavchansky.net/blog.php?bID=20
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great stuff Arie! thats virtually step by step of how I did the water, except I used actual rainwater
and tapped the surface of the glass to get movement. At the time I did not have a project for
that look, but saw the rain as an opportunity to get some good stock imagery for later projects.
I got perfect droplets out of it especially. Your tutorial is better, more controlled, AND you don’t have to wait for actual rain, lol 🙂
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thats what I love about this particular forum. People, once in a while anyway, can be so creative in their problem solving techniques. I was pretty sure no one else had tried or done what I did, but their are so many of us that it was silly of me to think so.
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thanks for sharing ArieSuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
web:https://web.mac.com/finaleffects -
Sure no problem. Glad you checked it out!
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