Text Reveal Effect Suggestion or Advice

[Rajarshi Basu]

Hi David,

Thank you for the suggestion. Yes I conceptually understand it…but are there any tutorials online that shows the production technique or a similar workflow involved ?

Thanks again !

[Walter Soyka]

How long is the shot? 10 or 15 seconds? Rotobrush [link] would make short work of this. I’ll bet it’s faster than trying to pull a key (especially if the plane crosses clouds).

Walter Soyka
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[Blaise Douros]

In the time it’s taken you to wait for responses, you could have rotoscoped it and been done already. Sometimes taking three hours to rotoscope is better than taking five hours to learn a way to do a task in one hour.

[Daniel Waldron]

I would create a solid, mask it to the shape of the back of the airplane while leaving a large solid area behind it (see attached photo). Then either manually track it or motion track it to the movement of the airplane. Use that layer as a track matte for your text. As long as the plane or camera doesn’t move in some crazy way, this should be relatively quick.

[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

With motion blur taken into consideration and a slight feathered edge I bet a quick animated mask that approximates the shape as suggested should be good enough.

Tudor \”Ted\” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist

[Rajarshi Basu]

Thanks guys !

Awesome.