How to do this effect?

[Steve Roberts]

How about setting up a camera underneath a sheet of glass, with a sheet of watercolour paper over that, then wetting the paper and shooting the result? Then you use that movie as a matte after tweaking the levels?

This should be covered in the sticky on the first page of the forum, methinks.

[Reloaded]

Well, I’d do this:

Put some black ink on a surface, point a camera (anyone, even the really cheap ones)to it, then take a white napking and put it over the ink so it could absorb the all the ink. Now capture the video and go to After Effects.
use the level filter to make the white really white, now you have a black and white video, put it over the image you want to reveal and set the Track matte of the image to be revealed to “Luma inverted Matte”.

That’s all. Whatever you do to the “ink video” will change the transition.

You could do the same effect with masks, but it would never be so realistic.
Also try to drop back ink on water with a white background, you’ll be amazed with the variety of cool transitions you can create.

I hope it helps.

[Tony Kloiber]

If you don’t have a camera you could use a particle generator like foam to create your b/w matte.

TonyTony

[Justin Productions]

Well, Steve’s idea was great!

But, this is possible in AE and pretty easy to do; download an Old paper image, put a logo on, and animate the edges of the logo with the Stylise > Roughen Edges effect.

Easy as that.

Justin Productions
Tangerin01@hotmail.com
Adobe After Effects 6.5 Professional

[Chris Smith]

This approach is worth a look:

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=889085

Of course this question comes up almost every week (using ink and paint mattes) and we always talk about shooting ink or paint which is probably the best, but this was a really good alternitive I thought.

Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com

[Gary Alan]

I just did it using Sony Vegas and Photoshop. For the sake of simplity and speed, I just used two frame grabs from the example clip only for this experiment. In other words I borrowed the cold parchment paper look and the line artwork of the castle. You should create your own new background, artwork and text for copyright reasons.

Two layers. Track 1 is text and it just dissolves in at the appropriate time in the center.

Track 2 consists of two pics. The first pic is the full blank gpld parchment as seen in the beginning of the clip with the spotlight effect for a hot middle and darker round corners. A circle gradient mask with feather and transparency would also do it. Duplicate that pic and then add to that duplicate pic the line artwork with the center area painted black where the text ends up.

Do a gradient transition between the two pics. Something like a cloud gradient will work. A noise generator could also do it. It just needs the black, grey and white gradient to create the wipe effect.

It’s the gradient wipe that makes the effect. This could be done in AE instead of Vegas and probably any other NLE tha can do gradient wipes. The parchment could also be created in some 3D apps like Cinema 4D with a rust style shader and tweaking. Or, find some sample pics on the web and recreate it in PS. Same for the line artwork.

Gary