Water filling up a mask or matte?

[Robert Werden]

Thats the thing, I dont know how to do it.

[Robert Werden]

Water is what I was trying. It works good for the entire comp, but the problem im having is constraining the water to my mask.
Im new to After Effects and Im not sure if im setting up the mask correctly.

I set my footage under a shape layer then drew the shape to form the container I wanted the water to fill up, which is basically an outline of the actor. Then when I apply the water effect, it fills the whole screen instead of just inside the mask.

Is this the method I should be using or is something else better for simulating filling up the mask.

[Brian Charles]

If I understand correctly… you could use either a matte or a mask to achieve the desired result. Shape layers are not masks however.

Try using an adjustment layer with the water applied and draw a msk on that layer. You can animate the mask to reveal more of the effect as you need. Make sure you have the adjustment layer selected when you draw the mask, otherwise you’ll create a shape layer.

[Robert Werden]

That is also the problem. The mask only shows part of the effect.

So imagine this effect is a glass of water. The mask is the shape of a glass and the water appears out of no where, pours in and when it hits the bottom of the mask it just vanishes as it passes right by the bottom of the mask. It does not splash back against the mask as it would in a real container or glass. It only reacts to the bottom of the comp.

So the thing I need the effect to do is interact with the mask as if the mask is the wall of the glass container.

[Robert Werden]

UGG

I dont think it can do it. There is no controllers for it.

Is there any other way to accomplish this with out the plug in?

Maybe a different plug in or just a method in AE?

Panopticum is a transition plug in more than an effect.

[Twann Hudson]

I don’t have the plug in , but it looks like you can create the look with mercury effect in AE. I’m not sure how to get the splash at the bottom of the image but you can key frame the birth size and death over time and have it file a mask of the person – play around with an image with the back ground keyed out, if the person is moving to really get it to look right you will need to roto each frame. i have just played with a pic it seems to be able to do what you want with the exception of the splash at the feet, for splashing i would have to defer to someone else.

hope this helps

the real fun begins when the program loads

[Ken Latman]

I had a problems simply ordering plug-ins from Panopticum. There customer support was not available.
But anyway, Dean Velez at Motion Graphics Lab has a excellent tutorial from his Monster series that might help. He recently discounted all his tutorials to one DVD (it is like over 50 lessons I think) You might want to check it out.
I don’t want to push his stuff but some of these examples are fantastic.

[Lance Clayton]

Perhaps something in this simple example is helpful when trying to achieve this effect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbcdTVMaF-4 (switch on English subtitles for a laugh)

or perhaps Newton Plug-in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuBFaIFDSSI

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