Trailer to film “Abandoned” – text treatment advice needed??

[Antony Buonomo]

Explore: directional blur, Trapcode Shine, roughen edges, changing between two typefaces and animating the scale/character tracking. That should get you close – It doesn’t look too complicated.

Often I think (generally, not aimed at you) the mistake is in expecting that there will be one effect or commercial plugin that will reproduce something that you have seen. Mostly, it was probably achieved by a designer/artist playing around and combining effects until they arrived at something they liked (or the deadline hit).

Also, question yourself on why you would want to reproduce something that someone else has done. Fine, if you are doing it to learn, equally fine if it’s a starting point for your own vision; but as an end in itself? I hope not.

Good luck – and I didn’t intend to embark on a lecture!
A

[Mike Bohatch]

Thanx for the tips, yes wanting to learn the method so I can apply it further or for enhancing a specific feel – often I’ve found trying to de-engineer provides a learning experience in itself that opens strange new options that otherwise may not have been apparent

M

[Darby Edelen]

I would suggest first creating some fractal noise and animating the evolution. Then bring this fractal noise comp into another comp where you can create your text. Try applying Gradient Wipe, Displacement Map and Compound Blur to your text, set all of them to use the fractal noise comp as input and play with the properties… For bonus points create different fractal noise comps with different looks and use them to drive the different effects (small and ‘torn’ looking fractal for Gradient Wipe? large blurry fractal for Compound Blur?).

The rays of light shooting out of the text can be achieved with Shine, as discussed, or a radial blur set to ‘zoom.’

Darby Edelen
Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA