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Text on Fire
I have been googling for a half hour now looking for an AE tutorial on setting text on fire. I found a few, but the fire looked cheesy and not very realistic.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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Maybe some stock footage from detonationfilms.com and some great sound effects can do the trick.
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Um.. hmm… thanks for the plug, but not even close to what I need.
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Convincing Fire is not easy to do. If you can’t find some live footage to composite, Trapcode has a plugin, Form, that is the closest I know.
https://www.trapcode.com/products_form.html
THIS IS NOT A PLUG. I don’t even own one trapcode product. Sad but true.
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Ah, but would you like to do a review of Form for the COW, Mike? :p
I think we could scrape you up a copy.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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Hello all
I have been working on the same problem. I used a tutorial, particle playground on fire by Maltannon, and used the techniques for creating fire with particle playground.
There is one strange thing that PP does to any footage that becomes the fire however. It moves the fire to the left and squishes it a little as well.
When I had it all set up the way I wanted, I placed my fire composition behind my text layer and tried to line them up. Every time I turned on the fire particle playground squished it.
The fire is pretty good in my opinion, but after 2 previous posts for help from this site no one has had any insights or suggestions.
I haven’t revisited the situation for a couple of weeks but I have a project that I want to title with text that is on fire.
If anyone has any ideas, please post them.
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Trapcode Form was mentioned and I took a look at it briefly. I downloaded the demo, but haven’t actually tried it yet.
I also downloaded the demo for Panopticum Fire which I’ll be trying later today. I have the Panopticum Curtain product which isn’t bad, but they are notoriously bad with documentation and from a brief look through the Fire demo docs, that hasn’t changed. So it may take some time for me to figure out how to use it.
I would have thought this would be a much more popular topic and someone would have done a tutorial… I’m a tad surprised.
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Trapcode Form is really what you want
https://trapcode.com/movies/AonFire_h.mov
This is from a (ready-to-use) sample project on their website.
cheers
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Some displacement mapping around the edge of the letter would really help to sell the effect.
Joey Foreman
Editor/Animator
Nowhere Productions, Athens, GA
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