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  • I want to create an kind of smoke effect on a text

    Posted by Yannick Michel on April 14, 2014 at 12:48 pm

    Hello,
    I’m new to Motion. I used to work with After Effects and I must say that I’m quite lost with Motion. Unfortunately, we don’t have any After effects license for the moment, so I have to use Motion.
    I want to create an effect like this one:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F2C1FblMLs

    Apparently, it was made with the trapcode Form. So Do you have any idea how I could do this with Motion.
    And there was also this tutorial: https://cgi.tutsplus.com/tutorials/create-whispy-spirit-like-text–ae-1562
    It’s what I would like to create, but I don’t know if the smear tool exist in Motion.

    It would be great if one of you have any answer to my problem. I thank you in advance for your replies.

    PS: sorry for my english 🙂

    Stephen Smith replied 12 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Stephen Smith

    April 14, 2014 at 2:29 pm

    Take a look at this thread: https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/170/861629#861632

    Or you can play with the Fogwriter live font by placing it in front of your text to reveal it which would be much easier.

    Stephen Smith

    Utah Video Productions

    Check out my Vimeo page

  • Yannick Michel

    April 14, 2014 at 3:12 pm

    Thank you for your quick reply.
    I haven’t found the livefont fogwriter. But I used a smoke emitter put a short life to the particle, add some gaussian blur and reveal my text with masks. It isn’t exactly what I wanted, but It should be ok.

  • Stephen Smith

    April 14, 2014 at 4:03 pm

    For the fogwriter go to the Library tab, LiveFonts, Pro Series: Fogwriter. It isn’t exactly what you want but it is quick and easy.

    Stephen Smith

    Utah Video Productions

    Check out my Vimeo page

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