Topic awaiting preservation: Liquid as liquid gets

Whhoohoo finnaly, I made it!

I was inspired my mahjqas perls...just wanted to attach my name to it

HUGE ASS THANKS goes to mahjqa! for all his help advice and lecturing me from 1000 miles away !


hope ya like it!

Nice work ruski.

You could make the perls stretch abit further, To make out the R and the I better.

nah I actually like it the way it is...it looks more liquid like

very very nice.


my only advice is to keep the motion going.

no pauses. so instead of stopping when it forms one drop, make it 'squeeze in' like this shape -> O ....so it's an oval, then move out, and then stetch horizontally when it forms the letters.

I will think about stretching....but here is non stop version

oooohhh..... ahhhh.....

methinks it's much better.

i could watch this version for quite a while.

and i will.

Allow me to quibble on minutiae for a moment: wouldn't the pearls of liquid become smaller as more letters are made out of their goo?

Just food for thought.

Ruski! very nice work here....
Im curious about how you went by it though.... is there a mini tutorial or something similar to this somewhere. Lighting is an issue for me..

No there is no actual tutorial...Mahjqa just game me alot of advice and feedback

ok so here how it goes!

make a new file of your chose since you can resize it later...set your background to color black. Make a new layer. Now choose gradient tool, set it to Radial Gradient (the circle) and Foreground to transparency. (use white as your foreground color) make a nice big one. now duplicate it.

If you want to make a name like I did or something like that, make number of layers and type each letter seperatly on each layer. Now do the Gaussian Blur on each letter same amount of pixels...easy way to do it is after the first blur simply click on the next layer and Ctrl+F
to repeat the filter.
After your are done click on that circle at the bottom of layer pallete that looks like "Yin & Yang" to creat an adjustment layer...when menu pops out choose levels. Now adjust your levels so that the balls and letters look nice and smooth... can be a little blurry at the edges.

Try moving the balls past each other to see if they blend like liquid balls.


Now the rest of work is done in Image Ready...

so go ahead and jump to IR with your current file...

the main thing in IR is to measure where your animation ends. So group all layers, open new layer on top of them all and use brush tool to draw a box around your main animation ending so that latter you can crop it.

Once you messured it out, on the first frame hide all the letters and move the balls together to make it look like a single big ball...or whatever

make a new frame and move the balls where they come to a stop, from here click on the tweening animation button...its to the left of "duplicate current frame button"...

once you click you need to choose how many frames you want and click ok...I chose 15...dont choose any futher...you will get tired of making effects on every damn frame.

here you will have a nice half looking animation.

so what do we do with letters?
well thats simple since they all are hidden...you need to go frame by frame showing them in the right time mostly starting from your center letters.

After you are done with the half of your animation select all the frames and click on "duplicate current frame button" to copy all those frames...now with all those layers selected click on the triangle button in the upper right corner of frame pallete and select "reverse frames"

here you go! you have a no effect simple animation...

as for effect its a bit time consuming...the most basic thing you gonna do is select the frame, jump back to PS in channels Ctrl click any immage to select the shape, creat new layer, feel with your color chose.....yes every frame like that back and forth until all the layers are made.

after you are done doing it, you may pick the effect you want but it works diffrently...you can use lighing FX, but I made my own layer style with bevel and embos as well other little nifty adjustments....because its easer and faster to polish all the layers...for Lighing FX I recomend to use actions to record what they did so this can be easely repeated by clicking play.
Once you made what you like, use it on one of your layers and jump to IR...here you simply have to
copy layer style and paste on the next one...for Lighing effect users, you need to play action on every layer in PS before jumping to IR...finnaly hide all the white layers and adjust each frame all over again...after completing it use crop tool to select where your animation will be and so that the box will be outside the selection, press enter and bingo! now hide the background and make transparency...save as .gif and done!

P.S. thanks to mahjqa for editing mistakes

mahjqa says: -->

Mas, yeah. It looks like it. He asked me how I did it and I helped him to do it. (I believe he quite clearly mentioned that) It's not the greatest form of creativity and individuality, but you've got to start somewhere. Wasn't imitation the sincerest form of flattery?