how to make a text shatters like liquid? (like in Dawn of the dead movie intro)

[Cobratoe]

good luck with this one! i am told that it was done with real liquid and cannot be recreated in after effects.

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[Michael Szalapski]

You could try using a clever combination of filters including Mr Mercury. I don’t have AE on this computer or I’d try to figure one up for you.

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[Graham Quince]

Particle Playground / Particle Illusion can do this sort of thing, but not great. In either case, you have to create a mask in the shape of the letters, and then expand it out past the screen, the particles will drop away. With a decent number and a tweaked blur, you should be able to approximate liquid, but only just.

Graham

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[Martti Ekstrand]

Well, according to a short article in Wired about Kyle Cooper, who designed the Dawn of the Dead titles, real blood was used. Looking at them it sounds plausible as they have the right viscosity for semi-dried blood flushed of a surface with a shower …

https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.06/cooper.html

So break out the camera and lights, get some metal plates and start donating some blood to your project. Or ask a butcher for some jars of pigs blood but be careful not getting infected by it, ie; keep it in a fridge, don’t have it too long and use rubber gloves when handling.

cheers