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

    Posted by Khyron on October 15, 2005 at 4:22 pm

    i need to make a text for an intro as it was something written with blood or liquid and you blow over it and scatters over a surface. I saw it on the movie “dawn of the dead” and i dont know how to make it, or anything similar
    sorry for my english, i

    Martti Ekstrand replied 20 years, 7 months ago 5 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Cobratoe

    October 15, 2005 at 5:11 pm

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

    j

  • Michael Szalapski

    October 15, 2005 at 5:19 pm

    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

    October 17, 2005 at 7:48 am

    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

    http://www.qcit.com

  • Martti Ekstrand

    October 17, 2005 at 4:14 pm

    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

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