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Ink flow effect
I want the effect of ink filling in a letter (as in the letter “A”). I’ve tried Write On but it only writes on a path and it’s limited to a 50pt brush. Does any one have any bright ideas?
Thanks,
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Do you mean like if the ink were filling Glass containers in the shape of letters? If so,
A new Solid, animated and a Track Matte.
Create a Black Solid, the height of the text, place it below the text,
Animate position so put it slides up over the text. This layer should be above theText layer in the time line.
Now in the Modes Column, set TrkMat to Alpha.The top edge can be bubbly with Roughen Edges (animate evolution) on the Black Solid.
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I don’t know if you’re familiar with the Write On effect but it has a reveal original image mode which gives a pretty good impression of ink flowing. The problem is it just writes along a path with a circular brush shape and it’s limited to a brush size of 50.
Chuck
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How do you overcome that 50pt problem anyway? Pre-comping? I just encountered it this week.
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Dave, I’ll try and be clearer, I have an outline of a letter, I don’t want to stroke the letter in, I can do that with Write On or maybe even the Scribble effect. And I don’t want it to fill the letter like a glass of water, well maybe a little but ink is more viscous then that so it would flow from the top down but not as if it standing like a glass but laying down on a piece of paper.
Chuck
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Most of the guys here believe that the ink spread effect is best done practically, by actually shooting paper and ink and experimenting. Then you use the text as a track matte over the ink layer.
If you search the COW for “ink”, you may find some alternatives.
Now … you might not have to think ink, as it were. You might be able to get away with a blotchy gradient wipe, maybe using a fractal noise layer (pre-composed) as the gradient, then applying the gradient wipe effect to a solid, then using the text as a track matte over that. Or maybe just adjust the levels/curve/contrast on the fractal noise layer to make it change from white to blotchy to black.
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Dwaynne
As far I know there seems to be no way of getting around the 50 pt limit. What I did was to make multiple Write On layers, one layer for each stroke, in the same composition. And yes I found it was easier to pre-comp each layer, more for alignment reasons then anything else (I still don’t fully understand pre-composing). Anyway that is the reason for my question because using the multi write on approach seems a bit klugey to me, you have to time each stroke precisely and you have no control over the shape of the brush.
Chuck
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Yes. Practical is the new CG, if I recall. I believe it was Lloyd Alvarez who gave a great seminar on alternatives to CG, involving scanning of old paper artifacts and such. He opened our eyes to the possibility, nay, obligation of using practical content in our productions to broaden our toolset.
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That’s actually not a bad idea. You’re right, I sometimes forget about doing things in ‘reality’ instead of with the computer.
Chuck
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Here is an ink splatter font they could be useful for this effect: https://www.dafont.com/wc-rhesus-bta.font
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No, that’s not what I had in mind for this project, but the font is really cool though, so many thanks, I’m already thinking about how to use it.
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