Letters Punch Through Metal

[Steph Foster]

Dave , I had a go at this using the shatter effect and a custom shatter map with “White Tiles Fixed” enabled in the Shape sub menu.
With a bevel & emboss layer style added I managed to get the
look of the metal being punched out in the shape of a logo or text.
If you wanted more stress to the remaining metal plate could you perhaps add a distortion effect ?
Or maybe you’ve already looked at this option and not been happy with the outcome ?

Steph

[David Tunnell]

Thanks for the reply. I wondered if there was a way to get the shatter effect to do it. I plan to experiment with your technique sat AM.

Did you use text as your custom shatter map? Does it have to be a certain color like a mask? Do you have a sample posted anywhere? So many questions! If you don’t thats cool.

Dave

[David Tunnell]

I could wait so I did a quick test. I tried creating the text in AE and in Photoshop. I got the text to break through the metal, but it was blocky, it did not retain the bevel of the text.

I will keep trying.

Dave

[Steph Foster]

I’d be happy to mail you the simple .aep file and sample avi I made so you could pick it apart if thats any help.

Steph

steph.p.foster {at} gmail {dot} com

[Alan Tonn]

Hello

i am very interested in this as well.

steph do you do tutorials? i would be very interested in seeing what you did to create this effect.

alanrtonn {at} hotmail {dot} com

[Steph Foster]

Hi Alan,

I am intending to send up my own web site with some ideas and tutorials as I have noticed a shortage of good sites for AE.

I can’t promise they will be of the same high quality as we get from the Cow but I’d be happy to try and help out people.

steph.p.foster {at} gmail {dot} com

[David Tunnell]

Steph,

I would be happy to see what you did. I am not certain what the protocol is. Do I post my email? I also have a site with an upload area if w could PM.

Dave

[Steph Foster]

David,

My email address is on my signature at the bottom of this email.

Email me off forum and I’ll send you what I did and see if it’s the sort of thing you were looking for.

Steph

steph.p.foster {at} gmail {dot} com

[David Tunnell]

Man …. I got really close by doing the following:

1 – set the metal image as backgrounf and duplicate it.

2 – Write my text, then choose “Layer – Creat Outlines”

3 – Use the new “Outlines” layer as a track matte for the top metal layer, then precompose the matted layer.

Now the matted layer is invisible over the original metal image layer, by using the Bevel Alpha, it appears to punch thru the metal from behind. I used another greayscale image at a displacement map to try to get some stress marks.

I think if I experimented with different DP Maps I might be able to make it more convincing.

See Test Here

This is simple test and I would also add SFX of a heavy metal stamp and metal stress.

Any suggestions feel free.

Dave

Thanks,

David Tunnell
Tunnell Vision Productions

[Frank Thomas]

Dave,

I think your animation is happening too slowly. Stamping something into metal is an (almost) instant event. So much so that any stressing sounds would be covered up by the sound of the actual hit of the stamp.

On the other hand, if the lettering was being pressed (as in hydraulic/mechanical press) into the metal, it would happen much more slowly. In this case, there’d be no hit (stamp) sound, only the sounds of the metal stressing (stretching/tearing).

Your example seems to be a mixture of the two above situations, which just doesn’t happen in the real world.