| | | | Re: need to create a goopy chocolate wipe
by Kevin Camp on Mar 1, 2012 at 5:54:00 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Take a look at cc mr mercury or cc glue gun applied to a chocolate brown layer.
Also a drippy mask with cc glass may start getting close. You may need to apply cc glass as an adjustment layer, I'm not sure it sees the mask as a layer's alpha if a | | | | |
| | | | Liquid Simulation in After Effects
by Dan Donaldson on Feb 28, 2012 at 6:38:53 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Hello. For a project I am doing, I need to simulate cake batter being mixed inside of a bowl. I have heard that you can simulate liquids with Trapcode Particular, but I have no idea how to do this. Another plug-in that has been suggested to me is CC | | | | |
| | | | Re: Creating a Thick Liquid Look
by Eric Kirk on Feb 21, 2012 at 12:50:56 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Thanks,
That is pretty neat. I noticed it's over 3 years old and wonder if that Shape/Shade plugin is still relevant? Do you know anything?
Ted - Maybe you might know?
It's at this link: http://www.revisionfx.com/products/shade_shape/ove | | | | |
| | | | Re: Creating a Thick Liquid Look
by Walter Soyka on Feb 20, 2012 at 2:19:22 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
CC Mr. Mercury might be good here -- it's a particle-based simulation for for running viscous fluids.
If you duplicate your background layer and apply a Hue/Saturation effect to the top copy, check colorize, make it green, then add CC Mr Mercury, | | | | |
| | | | Re: Creating falling raindrops on glass
by Asaf Bochman on May 3, 2011 at 2:31:16 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
My apologies about the vague question.
I actually went about it backwards and ended up finding CC Mr. Mercury after I posted the question.
I will end up just animated the rain drops, there will be nothing behind it.
http://i.imgur.com/ienuc | | | | |
| | | | Re: Managing plug-ins in CS5
by Dave LaRonde on Mar 16, 2011 at 8:53:18 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
I'm not making accusations, mind you, but it sounds suspiciously like you may have procured a copy of AE from a not-entirely-trustworthy source.
I got mine straight from Adobe -- no friend-of-a-friend or anything like that, I know its provenance - | | | | |
| | | | Re: MR cc mercury
by Walter Soyka on Dec 6, 2010 at 8:17:41 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
CC Mr. Mercury (part of the CycoreFX collection) was bundled with After Effects CS3 -- you should have it in your install.
CycoreFX HD includes added color depths (16 bpc for all effects and float for some) and some additional features in some eff | | | | |
| | | | Re: lava lamp
by Thomas Luca on Oct 22, 2010 at 11:44:19 pm
in the MAYA Forum
What you're looking for is a simulation of blobs coalescing just like a real lava lamp, no? There are two plug-ins or effects in After Effects called CC Mr. Mercury and Foam. I know this because I am reading it in a 3D magazine right now. It has an a | | | | |
| | | | Re: The Secret World of Alex Mack Effects
by Michael Szalapski on Jun 21, 2010 at 6:16:37 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
First, I haven't seen what you're talking about, but from your description, I would say that Jeffrey is right; AE wouldn't be the tool of choice for this. However, since you asked how to do it in AE, I will try to answer that question.
Again, I ha | | | | |
| | | | Re: Bubbling effect on a layer in Photoshop
by Michael Szalapski on Jun 15, 2010 at 9:56:20 pm
in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum
You may want to look into using CC Mr. Mercury too. Depending on what you mean by "bubbling".
If you mask something in a precomp, it will probably work more like you want it to. Although, with Foam you can control where the bubbles go with flow map | | | | |
| | | | Re: How do I create the Donnie Darko Effect?
by Kevin Camp on Jan 29, 2010 at 8:06:57 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
cc mr. mercury could create a similar 'watery' effect, but it won't do the 3d aspect too well. if you want to give it a shot, duplicate the footage layer and apply cc mr. mercury. set velocity and gravity to 0 and increase the longevity, then anima | | | | |
| | | | Re: Randomizing a particle in AE
by Anders Hattne on Nov 30, 2009 at 8:51:33 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
I can think of a few sollutions:
1. Animating or keyframing masks.
2. Use particular with a custom particle deformed with turbulent displace.
3. cc Mr Mercury, although I've hardly used the effect. As far as I know it has this kind of meta ball ef | | | | |
| | | | Re: after effects for mac
by Dave LaRonde on Oct 19, 2009 at 4:17:16 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
There is no such thing as "free After Effects for Mac". Oh, wait -- someone can buy AE for Mac and give it to you... then it's free.
There is a tryout version of AE on the Adobe web site. It DOES NOT have the third-party plugins that are bundled | | | | |
| | | | Re: Running Paint Effect
by Trevor Gent on Aug 17, 2009 at 8:26:16 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Hey Seb,
This is one of those "not just one way around it" kind of deals.It probably depends on the look you are going for ( photo-real/ "catoonish"...)
You might try messing around with CC Mr Mercury if you want "blobby" looking stuff.
Ther | | | | |
| | | | Injecting a fluid
by gambuto troll on May 20, 2009 at 12:02:00 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Hi I want to do the following. I looked up a tutorial from the almighty Andrew cramer. The one where you fly into the bloodsystem and zoom in upon the bloodcells.
This is really nice cuz everything is in a 3d enviroment.
The thing I want to add | | | | |
| | | | Mr. Mercury panning paint
by Jaron Pulver on Mar 6, 2009 at 4:29:23 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Hey I'm working on a project that involves multiple CC Mr. Mercury's.
What I'm trying to do is have multiple paint colors fall down one right after each other in a rainbow colors. And now I want to pan across (left to right) with more colors coming | | | | |
| | | | Re: water fountain
by Viacheslav Sasykin on Feb 13, 2009 at 6:00:42 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
And also CC Mr. Mercury (may be the most appropriate plugin in this situation).
To get general impression how to use this plugin watch Andrew Cramer’s tutorial Water Drops
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/water_drops/
Also you may want take a lo | | | | |
| | | | Re: tomato
by Adriano Ninguem on Dec 26, 2008 at 5:17:11 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
CC Mr Mercury might do the trick. But it takes a lot of patience and twicking.
Hope I helped.
Cheers.
ninguem. | | | | |
| | | | Re: Paint Run/Drip Effect
by Joseph W. Bourke on Jun 20, 2008 at 4:13:31 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Techniques Forum
James -
Although not quite as good as the practical approach with real paint, you can use AE's CC Mr. Mercury in combination with Roughen Edges to achieve something close. If you spread the width of the particle generator horizontally and put th | | | | |
| | | | Re: making a animation
by Ben Griggs on Apr 15, 2008 at 2:03:26 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Sindre,
It seems like a perfect job for the "CC Mr. Mercury" effect. With minimal tweaking to the default settings you should be able to produce what your looking for.
You will also need to blend the layers properly at the point they switch. I thin | | | | |
| | | | Making a puddle
by Chaddix Malchow on Mar 18, 2008 at 4:29:15 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Hey hows it goin, i need to find out how to make a puddle expand/grow/form from a liquid (CC Mr. Mercury).
anything will help
thanks alot
chaddix | | | | |
| | | | Re: Matrix Silver from mirror effect
by Jack Watts on Mar 6, 2008 at 2:05:37 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Try using the effect cc mr mercury and track mate it through a duplicated layer of your footage. Make sure your duplicated layer only contains the data that you want to track in this case your actor! This could take a while if you cant key out your a | | | | |
| | | | Re: CC Particle World??
by Topher Welsh on Mar 4, 2008 at 5:50:43 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
I beleive that the trial versions and the educational versions dont include the Cycore Effects (CC Particle World, CC Mr Mercury... etc...)Topher Welsh
Head Editor & Motion Graphics
www.scout.com | | | | |
| | | | Re: tornado
by Dale Jackson on Feb 6, 2008 at 4:41:02 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
I just created a CG tornado using "Real Clouds" from video copilot and CC Mr. Mercury (for debris field and rain). I show how to do it over at youtube, just uploaded yesterday. I had been searching for realistic tornado in AE for so long, then it ju | | | | |
| | | | Re: Water Effect. "wash" in an image
by Darby Edelen on Nov 27, 2007 at 6:25:05 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
There are some effects that can be manipulated to resemble water. The details of how these effects work vary and which effect(s) you would use depends on your goal. However, you could take a look at them, here's my short list of recommendations:
| | | | |
| | | | Re: Lava Lamp Effect
by Rutger on Aug 22, 2007 at 2:08:06 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Hello,
I think you can get pretty far with the CC Mr. Mercury effect. Requires quite a bit of tweaking though. A few tips:
- Set keyframes for birthrate to release a few blobs initially and then set it to zero.
- have the birth and death size set | | | | |
| | | | Re: Going inside someones Nose
by Aharon Rabinowitz on Aug 21, 2007 at 8:46:33 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Try using CC Cylinder for the sinus cavity tube, and then perhaps CC Mr. Mercury for the snot.----------------------------------------
Aharon Rabinowitz
arabinowitz(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
www.allbetsareoff.com
----------------------------------------
Clic | | | | |
| | | | Re: Cutting somene's head off with a lightsaber
by Russell Morton on Aug 19, 2007 at 2:58:12 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Hey,
For the head a simple option would be to mask around another copy of the head and animate it to appear as if it is flying off. So you could use a combination of Position, Rotation and Scale. And enable motion blur for that layer.
This does hav | | | | |
| | | | Making water conform to a drawn vector shape
by brennan on Aug 16, 2007 at 2:38:36 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
So I have made a water blob / droplet in After Effects using CC Mr. Mercury.... and have added lighting to it. I have it looking like I want, but now I am trying to figure out how to make the water blob shape customized, like one I have drawn in illu | | | | |
| | | | Rorschach Ink Blot Test
by Bob Thompson on Aug 8, 2007 at 12:00:00 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
In this tutorial from CreativeCOW member, Bob Thompson, you can combine a few filters and some time remapping to create an effective looking animated Rorschach Ink Blot Test. | | | | |
| | | | Re: Waves over sand
by RoRK on Jun 25, 2007 at 11:24:46 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Take a look at CC Mr Mercury for the water bit. Off the bat, it renders with an alpha channel - it'll be easy to composite your text for a reveal.
Cheers
Roland Kahlenberg
http://www.broadcastGEMs.com - Adobe After Effects project files
http://www.m | | | | |
| | | | Re: Disappearing Clip
by randyman on May 1, 2007 at 6:53:43 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
You might try using the Mr Mercury (Effect/Simulation/CC Mr Mercury). It has a kind of rounded edge mercury (liquid) effect that you can control. It might resemble liquid sucking into the hole revealing the next clip undernieth. | | | | |
| | | | Re: rain on camera
by Steve Roberts on Mar 18, 2007 at 9:22:27 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
If you have access to a camera, you can point it at an overcast (white) sky and spritz water on it. Then you comp that over your shot. If not, you could try Foam in AE ot CC Mr. Mercury, also in AE.
Keep in mind, they'd be blurry unless you've done | | | | |
| | | | Re: Super Tight Junk Mattes video tutorial
by Dave LaRonde from the COW on Nov 24, 2006 at 7:01:06 pm
in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum
Yes: Keylight doesn't install when you install AE. You need to open the AE installation disc and install AE separately.
At the same time, you'll want to install all those Cycore plugins you're missing like CC Sphere, CC Mr. Mercury, etc.Dave LaRond | | | | |
| | | | Re: Slime on text effect
by MarkofCain on May 30, 2006 at 1:09:27 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Yes. Unforunately there is not a single reference to CC Mr. Mercury and only one result for a search on "mercury" which has nothing to do with CC Mr. Mercury.
Thanks for the reminder.
Mark Cain
Sarasota, FL USA | | | | |
| | | | Slime on text effect
by MarkofCain on May 29, 2006 at 11:41:33 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
I would like to make a blob of slime ooze over some text. I have searched the archives on for slime, goo, gel and the only post I'm getting is a terse reference to CC Mr. Mercury.
I have AE 6.5 pro and CC Mr. Mercury is there - but I can't find any | | | | |
| | | | Re: CC Mr.Mercury as transition?
by alon_a on May 3, 2006 at 4:17:45 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
As far as I know, you're right, CC Mr. Mercury does not easily lend itself to creating a transition since it doesn't have a "master" knob for switching from a blobby image to a flat, unaffected one.
You have several options...
One simple method is | | | | |
| | | | CC Mr.Mercury as transition?
by RATRAY on May 2, 2006 at 3:04:30 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
I'm a relatively new AE user and I'm trying to use Mr. Mercury to melt one scene off and another one on. I cannot seem to find the "master" attribute for Mr. Mercury that will allow me to start the effect gradually and let the image melt slowly. It | | | | |
| | | | Re: Newbie question / Melting logo
by Kathlyn Lindeboom on Mar 14, 2006 at 11:29:45 pm
in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum
.[RonanR] "Or are they usually part of bundles? Mr Mercury is part of a bundle, as far as I can understand."
Mr. Mercury is one of the Cycore FX effects. It would be located in a separate folder on the install disc. Once installed, reach it by going | | | | |
|
|
