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writing with smoke
Here is another general question I thought I might see what people’s thoughts are:
I would like to take general text, maybe just one word, white text on a black background, and make it slowly appear like cigarette smoke was writing it on.
I say cigarette smoke because i want it to be slow and thin lined smoke… intricate might be the word.
You would see the smoke first, starting at the bottom of where the text would be, and as it floats up, it would slowly fill in the text to reveal it finally. Basically a ramp up, but not a straight line from a mask revealing the text.
Any thoughts on how to do this with normal effects and/or Cycore effects?
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I’d do this with a clip of cigarette smoke rising and a track matte (precomp) layer for the text, along with the text layer. I don’t think the ciggy smoke is enough to fill in the text, so you might have to add some other stuff to fill in.
In the precomp, the idea would be to use the same ciggy smoke layer to begin to make the letters appear. But that wouldn’t be enough, so you might have to add a copy of that layer, offsetting it in time and position. Also, you could add a fractal noise layer that looks cloudy but also becomes white in a gradual fashion, to help fill in the, er, whiteness. It’s a matter of adding enough stuff to slowly fill in to white whiel still looking as if the ciggy smoke is creating it all.
For more info, you could search the COW for “smoke”.
Anybody else?
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That’s definitely a place to start. Thanks!
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Particle Playground with a Layer Map of some smoke-like thingy PLUS Kinetic friction should work. Expect lots of tweaking. If you have Paraticular, I believe that they have a built-in effect for something like this
Good Luck
Roland Kahlenberg
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