Joseph W. bourke
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Martin –
You might want to start out playing around (not exactly the appropriate term, since ALL 3D packages take a lot more than playing) with Blender, which, for a free application, has some pretty good liquid simulation capabilities among other things:
https://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-240/fluids-simulation/
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To get the liquid to rise in the text, just use a simple linear wipe, set to wip up from the bottom of the text.
This won’t give you the effect of the liquid pouring and splashing through the text as if it’s real liquid. For that,
you would need a liquid simulator in a 3D package.Joe Bourke
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Red Giant makes a very nice, although somewhat expensive plugin called Toon-It:
https://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/toonit/
I own it, and can vouch for the quality of the presets. It’s even possible to stack presets to come up with some very nice looking results, quickly. Of course it’s also completely customizable.
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A particle system is definitely the way to go – the built-in ones (Particle World, etc.) aren’t nearly as good as Particular or Wondertouch Particle Illusion, a freestanding or plugin package. While Particular comes with number of presets, I don’t think any of them are impact dust like. Illusion – depending on the version you buy – gives you access to vast libraries of effects, and impact dust is most definitely in one of the libraries, along with dust trails (POV), and a large number of other effects, from spouting water, to explosions, to fairy dust – you can look at a few of the library looks on their website. You can also build your own effects from scratch in Illusion, as well as in Particular.
Joe Bourke
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A couple of things to try – I use 3DS Max, so I’m not sure whether C4D has this render setting. There’s a choice in the Max renderer called Video, which softens the look of the 3D, making it match better with video elements. This often helps get rid of the sometimes overly “crisp” look of 3D.
It sounds as if you want a more stylized look to the 3D – there may be some shaders in C4D similar to Max’s Ink and Paint – they give the 3D element the look of an illustration – you might want to output the full 3D, then a stylized version, and blend the two passes in After Effects.
One other thing to think about is whether our lighting from C4D is matching the light source in your 2D imagery – that can sometimes help the blend. Good luck!
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I’m not sure whether this will work – my first suggestion would have been the script. You could save the layer as a Photoshop file out of After Effects, then cut those layers to separate layers in Photoshop, bring it back in to AE as a composition, and you’re all set. Much more work than the script, I’m sure.
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Looks to me like Film Clutter/Artifacts. You can buy collections of clips such as this from Artbeats and other sources. It just fades in and out, looks like in a blending mode.
It might even be this clip – decide for yourself:
https://www.artbeats.com/clips/FC132/NTSC
At 149 dollars, you could probably create it yourself in a lot less time, and way cheaper. Some circles and object way out of focus, moving around in After Effects, or shoot it yourself with a couple of lights and shaky camera.
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Hi Roland –
I haven’t experienced this particular procedure, but here’s what Adobe says about it:
https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/activation-deactivation-products.html
Joe Bourke
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This could be a possible solution from a while back by Andy Kessler:
“Go to your QuickTime installation directory and find QTCF.dll. Copy that file to \Adobe After Effects CS3\Support Files. Next time you start AE it should work.”
You didn’t which version of AE you have, so you might want to just copy the .dll file to the /Support Files folder in whatever version you have. I hope it helps.
Joe Bourke
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Here’s what Adobe has to say about it:
https://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/201009/090910BBCAdoptsPremiereProCS5.htmlThere were a few other results turned up in my searches, verifying that this was in the news in 2010.
Joe Bourke
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