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Ink coalescing into text
I’m trying to do an effect (2d or 3d, whichever ends up being easier) where blobs of ink on a canvas pulse/move around a little and then kind of melt into/coalesce into each other to form text. The effect I want is kinda like metaballs/blobs. I’m not sure how to do that in AE (I’ve done some metaball stuff in bryce). Also, I;m not really sure how to go from the final conjoined ink blob to the text font. Slight variations could work too; the final ink blob could ‘melt away’ into the page leaving only the ink for the text. So, 2 part question:
1. How do I make a bunch of metaball/inkblobs in AE and have them join together into a large ink blob?
2. How do I morph/dissolve/etc. from that large blob to text?If #1 is not really possible in AE due tot he lack of metaballs, I can do it in Bryce (I don’t have Maya) and add it in to my canvas. But that still leaves me with a large ink blob that I somehow have to transform to text. I’d rather do something a little nicer than just cross dissolving from one to the other.
Thanks.
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How about using “turbulent displace” to distort the text to make the blob? Maybe scale up the text, use matte choker …? Add bevel alpha for some depth?
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Thanks for the quick response. I tried your suggestions, and its looking much closer to what I’m going for. Video here:
The first half looks great; I scaled it up with turbulent displacement and added bevel alpha. I like it better without the matte choker actually, gives it a nice ink look. However, about half way through, when the text starts to scale close down to 100%, it starts looking kinda odd, and the ending doesn’t look good at all. Any thoughts? If I can get it to convincingly go from that halfway point to a large single ink blob, I can reveal the text through it, but I can’t seem to get it to come together well. I tried animating the matte choker a little bit to glob it together better in the end, but it doesn’t look so great.
Thanks. (Sorry if any of the questions I’m asking are dumb ones; I’m pretty new to AE)
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Forgot to include video link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhCcru4-JLw
Looks good until the 3 sec mark, then not so much. -
Have you tried fooling around with Mr. Mercury?
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Only for a few minutes. I’m going to try that next. I may just use what I have now with an ink blob photoshop layer instead of the text, and have it melt away revealing the text. Either way, this part of the project is on hold for the moment; the guy I’m doing it for changed his mind and now wants a different intro. Thanks everyone for the help.
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