How to make text drip blood in After Effects

[Rick Kap]

animate a mask on a solid, and apply a bevel effect

[Tom J]

Boy has this one come up often. I used the search engine here for “dripping text” and found the thread I was looking for dating back to 2001 by Rick Gerard.

https://www.creativecow.net/forum/read_post.php?postid=10017308265594&forumid=2&highlight=bleeding%2Ctext&archive=_2001

or this one as well

https://www.creativecow.net/forum/read_thread.php?threadid=312340&forumid=2&postid=105103314567591&archive=_2003

That will definitely get you what you’re after.

Tom