[Buzzard]

I was looking for a kind of morphing effect.

For example:
I would evapourate on particular word into a plume of smoke and it would settle to form a different word.
I don’t think PI will do it as I’d need direct contol over the path of each particle instead of just the emitter.

However, I did recently discover the neatest effect…….
Using the get colour and transparency from layer, then increasing the number and size of the particles, it would form a cloud covering the whole word.
I then saved it as an avi and created the next title in the sequence, this time using the same size, position and number of particles as the end of the previous title, then reducing the relevant graphs to show the word, then increasing them again to create the came size cloud to cover the word and so on for each title.

I then put them all together in my video editor and used the flashback wipe inbetween clips and also placed video footage between each title. The footage would appear through the text first and then grow to fullscreen.

Probably badly explained and it wasn’t what I wanted to do initially, but it looked so good, I completely changed the intro to the film to accomodate this and scrapped my original idea.

At the moment, the movie size is 5gb so won’t link to it yet.
I’ll cut that sequence out and compress it to a smaller file as it’s unlike any intro I’ve seen.
I’m sure some of you guys would make a better job of what I’ve achieved and would like to see a more polished version to see how good it can look.

[Buzzard]

I did this but it did look like a 2d explosion sandwiched in the middle.
However, I then applied a further explosion on the top layer and used the visibility option to create a fake transparency.
I think it looks preety good for my first effort…..
I used Ulead Cool3d prodution studio for the 3d work and originally for the fire and smoke.

The difference using PI is immense.

Original: http://www.re-volutionmedia.com/logo.rar
PI remix http://www.re-volutionmedia.com/upload.rar

[Buzzard]

The one I use is Cool3d production studio.
It doesn’t intigrate with Particle illusion but you can do virtually anything with 3d text such as create custom bevels, textures, materials, video textures and manipulate it to do virtually anything…. Dance, move, rotate, circle an object, explode etc.

I then use PI to spice it up.

[Buzzard]

Not what I expected to see at all!
I sat there thinking “What the……?”, and couldn’t stop watching.
Very funny.