text (logo) coming out from water

[William J. meyer]

Hi!
Just a few minutes ago I animated a logo emerging from a wall of glass. Maybe the process is similiar enough to assist you.

First I used Andrew Kramer’s quick reflection preset on my logo. The preset is available here. After I had positioned my logo in its final state over the glass, I duplicated my logo. I named one instance “the logo” and the other instance “the reflection.” Then I created two adjustment layers that I used to mask off the portions I wanted of the logo and the reflection layers, so I could animate them independently. I applied the masks on the adjustments layers using track mattes, so when I moved the layers, the mask stayed put. This allowed me to move the logo down on its Y-axis “into” the glass, and the reflection up on its Y-axis so it would appear in sync with the logo.

Being you’re using a liquid, I’d guess applying a displacement map to the reflection layer would help sell the effect.

Now, at the point of intersection you might want to feather the mask that affects the logo, if you don’t want a sharp line where the logo emerges from the milk. In my case I used another adjustment layer with the CC Light Rays filter to obscure my edge.

Hope some of this helps!

ciao,
wjm

[Darby Edelen]

Things get complicated quickly this way, and every case takes some tweaking, but you can use the Wave World effect with your text as a custom floor to create displacements that match your logo’s contours.

Maybe I’ll post some more details on this later if I have the time.

Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
Aptos, CA