Organic fluid swirls

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Organic fluid swirls

Posted by Gnwanya on March 2, 2007 at 10:25 pm

Hi All

Im not new to After effects, but i am currently having difficulties at this stage, and im hoping you can help me out.

I wish to create an animation base on organic fluid floating swirling and floating around in a white space. Like dropping blue ink into a tank and watching it take on differnt forms and shape before dissapating.

These stills are from my storyboard:

https://www.nwanya.com/images/organic1.jpg
https://www.nwanya.com/images/organic2.jpg

My problem is i am not achieving anything near close to this. I am using trapcodes particulars and 3d stroke, but with no luck. Does anyone have a workflow that they would use to go about creating such an animation, something that they can share. What AE plugins or fliters you use is not as important as how you did it for me.

Thanks for your time
G

Alexxx replied 19 years, 2 months ago 6 Members · 8 Replies
8 Replies

Nate Vander plas
March 2, 2007 at 10:51 pm

This is just a practical suggestion: shoot ink in a tank of water with a white background. If you search the posts I think it was Andrew Kramer who gave some pointers on doing this very thing.
Morebo
March 2, 2007 at 11:09 pm

I haven’t tried this myself but maybe you could get close with a free plugin from Dragonfly called Sinedots, and shine from trapcode(not free). You probably would have to do multiple sinedots effects and tweaking the parameters on each effect and playing with the blend modes. Sinedots do provide organic moves.

morebo
Gnwanya
March 2, 2007 at 11:46 pm

Hi Morebo and Nate.

Thanks for the suggestions.

@ Nate, unfortunately shooting in a thank will be out of the question because of the time and resoruces, plus I will need to have control over the paramenters of the organic fluid. However, thanks very much for your input. And i may look at this method ata later date.

@ Morebo – I’ve never come across this plugin before, but I will look into Sinedot, and see where that takes me.

Thanks for the advice guys. Much appreciated!

G
Kevin Camp
March 3, 2007 at 1:02 am

it’s a few years old, but will probably still work. you can find it here, if you haven’t already.

https://www.philipp-spoeth.de/

he also has sinedots II

the movement of the lines reminds me of that old windows screens save… curves… or mystify… i think
Gnwanya
March 3, 2007 at 1:06 am

Thanks Moldyboot for the link. I had just come across it moments before. I will post a link to a short test mov clip of what i have within a day.

Thanks everyone for the help!
G
Tony Bartolucci
March 3, 2007 at 4:10 am

I have a similar organic shape/fluid that I would like to animate and have the final product be the image in the link…. I created the shape/effect in PS so can I also use sinedots to achieve this in AE?

https://www.silverscreencreations.com/organic.jpg
Gnwanya
March 3, 2007 at 10:56 am

Hi all

Here is my first attempt at the swirly type ink effect im trying to create. I used the sinedot plugin, and think it done the job far better than expected. After changing a few parameters at keyframes to add movement, I also used the Turbulance displacment filter to give it more fluidness, but its still a little hit and miss. Hopefully with a little more work and time i can create something even better.

@ tb5821 – Best of luck!

Here is the link to it. Using H.264 codec

https://www.nwanya.com/organic2.mov

Thanks again for everyones advice.

G
Alexxx
March 3, 2007 at 12:21 pm

Looking good!

Keep us updated with further improvements.

Alex
Lightdrop Video Production, Editing & Design

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