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The Thing Title Sequence
Hi,
I am looking to re-create the famous title effect from the movie “The Thing” (the 1982 version by John Carpenter). For those who haven’t seen the film the white text seems to “burn” onto the screen followed by blue light which appears to shine through the text. I tried to find a Youtube clip demonstrating this but was unable to do so.
I’m very new to After Effects so if anybody could help me so that a novice could understand I would be most greatful. As a side note I have Trapcode shine plug-in.
-Regards
Antoni
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2 Replies
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Hmm, how ’bout this:
Get a rust texture, something with a lot of dynamic range, desaturate it with Tint. Then apply levels and animate. First crush the blacks alll the way. Set a keyframe and move down and put the blacks back where they were and crush the whites until it’s all white.
Get your text layer, or graphic layer and use the levels-animated rust as a luma matte (that right?) The words should form out of nothing based on the pattern in the rust.
Next, apply Shine. You may need to precompose the above before adding Shine. Season to taste. (glow, etc.)
Best I can do, I’ve only been using AE for about a year.
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Thank you for the response, I actually figured it out myself and sort of used the technique you described but I used the Fractal Noise effect to generate the revealing of the text. I used Shine to generate the blue light Glow and Andrew Kramers Twitch to generate the pulsating effect.
You can see the result below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laHt_wMmlNg
It’s not perfect of course and I could not get the exact font used in the title which was slightly disappointing.
-Thanx Again
Antoni.
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