From the course: After Effects Tips and Techniques: Compositing and Effects
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Improving realism with displacement - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Tips and Techniques: Compositing and Effects
Improving realism with displacement
- Displacement effect are one of my favorite compound effect in the software. In case you don't know, a compound effect take the pixel information of another layer to drive its results. You can use it to create camera blur and different distortion effects, but it is also a very useful tool when compositing elements that should get their movement from the surface underneath or above them. In this movie, I'll share yet another recipe to create a displacement source in order to distort a logo or text based on the content of the underlying clip, in our case, a clip of waves crashing onto the beach. First, let's take a 10-seconds break in order to watch and also relax. (waves splash and gurgle) Very, very relaxing, which means that ... Vacation, that's what you need now. Right? I'm reading your mind and therefore I already prepared this text, or this block of text, with the word "vacation that's what you need now." I've already set it up to the Add Blending mode, and this is a 3D layer…
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