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Creating an ethereal morph effect

Creating an ethereal morph effect - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Tips and Techniques: Shapes, Text Masks, and Path Effects

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Creating an ethereal morph effect

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- In this movie we'll take the result of the previous movie, which is this series of morphing masks, and we'll convert it to this final ethereal morph effect. We'll do it using the Radio Waves effect. Now I learned this technique from my dear friend Satya Meka, who you know may know as Rowbyte, the creator of Plexus, one of the most popular plugins for After Effects, which can create complex shapes based on paths, lights, and null objects. But here we are going to use Satya's technique in order to create those blending shapes, which you can use in order to create complex backgrounds as well as some text messages like you see here. So let's get started. I'm continuing almost from the same place we've left off in the last movie. The only addition here is that I've created a solid layer which I've named BG for background. On top of it I've placed the Gradient Ramp effect using two different brightness of pink because pink, as you probably know, is the color of love. For simplicity I'm…

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