Ripple into letters

[Anonymous]

this may be able to help you out https://www.ayatoweb.com/ae_tips_e/ae26_e.html

[Mike Clasby]

This is different than Ayato (who am I to argue, that guy is great), each letter form fron a drop-rippling out.

This worked (I think its what you want). Use the letter (P in the sample below) as a contour in Radio Waves, the precomp and use that as the Displacement Map in the Displacement Map effects. Details below:

With the text tool I made a P (a large one) layer.

Render > Radio Wave
Move the Producer Point and ImageContour>Source Center until the ripples are concentric (and don’t overlap each other).

Stroke>FadeInTime and FadeOutTime – 0
Stroke- Start and End Width – your choice (I had the end bigger)

WaveMotion>Frequency,Lifespan – tweak these one after the others to get the ripples to die where you want them to. I had lifespan at .85, that gave me a full sizes “P” at 1 second (but this was only a test size 320×240 comp, so a larger comp will need different settings)

Stroke>Color – white

Now go down the timeline (to 1.5 sec for me) and change the fadeinTime to 0 (so the ripples stop a little after the keyframe), and change the fade in Time to something like 30 (so the ripple stop emitting from the center.

Now precomp the P layer.

Add you water graphic layer above and Effect>Distort>Displacement Map, with the “P” layer as the Displacement Map Layer.

Y might have to render out a frame (Comp>SaveFrameAs and sub it in for the P layer, or a hold keyframe I guess) to get teh P to freeze a full size.

Anyway you ccan get a ripple in any shape you want, as long as you can select it as a contour in Radio Waves.

It seems to me you’ll have to do it for each letter.

[Shirley Chen]

Thank you very much for the reply. I have taken a look at the website….Great work. I really appreciate the quick replies and the detail postings.

Cheers,
Shirley