Re: Creating a paintdrip

Convincingly, I think not. How I would attack it is to take the still into photoshop and use it to build a version where the drips are elongated, save those out as a layer. Now you can keyframe them such that the initial spray stands still for a beat, then the layer of the extended drips, suitably masked, slides down but looks like part of the original. This looks best I think for thin individual drop trails here and there, not so much an all-around ooze.

That's still not great, but better, I think, than just applying a warp to the original.

But even better is the real thing: you can buy paint "throws" from Digital Juice in their compositor's toolkit.

Or for free...

Back when I had to do blood dripping down a screen for a horror promo, I shot cholocate syrup manually squeezed onto a piece of foam core. Chocolate syrup smells and cleans up way better and easier than ink or paint, and is cheap and a good thickness. You adjust the flow speed by how much you tilt the foam core board off vertical. More vertical = faster flow. The hi-contrast matte thus generated can be colored any way you like, and unless the still graphic they supplied is very specifically required for some logo reason or such, I would prefer the chocolate live shot myself.