[John Cuevas]

I would probably use a particle emitter to create the initial splash, but to make it look like the text has gone under the water you will want to work with caustic. Check out this cow tutorial.

Caustics: Dropping the Cow into A Pool of Water

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Looks like it was originally created with a DVE(digital video effects) and then filmed.

To recreate that I would use a combination of individual text animations, and some of the distort effects, CC Bend It, Bender, Bezier Warp, or Mesh warp

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Are the dots a single color, if so you can create a key that dials in that color to isolate the dots. Then just invert the key. There a number of keyers in AE that can do the trick.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

I would make my line, repeating line, text box and parent them all to a null, then use the null scale to zoom in and out. Without knowing your exact set-up, you might have created something where you can’t do it that way now, though.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Little confused, does the video that you will be working on already have dots, or do you just want a technique for creating random dots that fade in and out?

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

You are going to need to replace the tires and create your own, preferably much larger, then use those in your final comp with 3D enabled. Something along the lines of this.

10147_cartirefolder.zip

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

You might be able to manipulate the cartoon effect, or use one of the paint styles in photoshop. Perhaps you might find this technique as something that might work for you video too.

CREATING A WATERCOLOUR WIPE IN AFTER EFFECTS

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

I can’t think of a way of doing this without building each “layer” of videos, either via a particular emitter(that would be very CPU intense). Here’s an expression I use to align a bunch of layers pretty quickly if they are all the same size. The places you would need to adjust would be the columns variable, the width and height between columms, and the origin position. For a bunch of PIP’s. I would put each one in a precomp(just drag them all on the make a comp button). Use the CompSetter script to resize them all smaller, 320×180, then drop them into a final comp and apply the expression to the position property of the videos. You could modify the expression to tie the variables to a master control null that you place at the bottom of your layer stack, that would make it easier to make adjustments if needed.

var columns = 8;
var spaceBetweenLayers = thisLayer.width + 15;
var spaceBetweenRows = thisLayer.height +15;
var x = ((index-1) % columns) * spaceBetweenLayers;
var y = Math.floor((index-1) / columns) *spaceBetweenRows;
var origin = [125,125];
origin + [x,y]


You would get something like this: 10120_positionexpression.aep.zip

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

For something like this, I would create a large solid and add a grid to it, enable 3D. Parent a camera to the solid layer then adjust the solid until the grid lined up in a way I felt was correct.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

I think you did a great job. Perhaps it’s youtube playback, but maybe there is a little text drift as the play is turning in the first 6 seconds, like the text is moving forward just a smidge. But the coloration, warping, work on the door area, is top notch.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.