Rippled Text
by Rob Mclaine
on
Mar 11, 2008 at 8:36:37 pm
Hi all,
Using AE 7.0 I'm trying to replicate the effect on the text shown below:
The pictures aren't that helpful but the overall effect is of text projected on the surface of water with randomly sized ripples running in one direction though and breaking up the lettering. Additionally it almost looks like the distortion you'd get looking through moving piece of textured glass over the lettering (arctic texture for those of you who know what that looks like)
I've tried variations of every filter I can find on AE & some different displacement maps, a number of them give the 'ripple' warping water effect to the text but none in the above way; The above is more like the text being projected onto the surface of the water with the ripples breaking up the reflection, but most of the filters I've tried don't break up the lettering, If you can imagine you more get the effect of text printed on a t-shirt, it can warp & move about but doesn't break up.
Re: Rippled Text by Dave LaRonde on Mar 11, 2008 at 8:57:39 pm
[Rob Mclaine]"Any suggestions anyone?"
Yeah... got access to a video projector or a screen shooter? Why not try it as a practical effect and simply project the text on water, shooting it with a camera?
Re: Rippled Text by Kevin Camp on Mar 11, 2008 at 8:58:17 pm
it would be helpful to see a clip of what you are looking for... but this tutorial may be of some help. i uses two effects, wave world and caustics to distort a logo that makes it look like it is at the bottom of a pool....
it sounds like you've probably tried the simpler effects like turbulent displace and displacement map with fractal noise as a map. roughen edges can also do a similar distortion to turbulent displace with 'loose' rough settings...
Re: Rippled Text by Rob Mclaine on Mar 11, 2008 at 9:25:15 pm
Should have also added, you can view the effect I want if you have 'The Evil Dead' movie, the 2nd screengrab is the title screen from that movie. the first is from the menu of the AB version of that.
Re: Rippled Text by Ian Corey on Mar 11, 2008 at 9:58:31 pm
Sorry. Forgot to mention that you should blur the text after you set it to Reverse Alpha Matte. That way, the Fractal Noise "eats" into you text in the last step.
