create ink effect like in this video

[vkhu]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnt2CCioedQ

Anyone know how to do the ink fade in effect like in that video using after effects?

 

[Caidh Mor]

For something like this, you're going to need software along the lines of After Effects, or Motion, or something that allows you to create and render particle effects, as well as a plug-in that allows you to manipulate particles like they're suspended in a fluid. Trapcode Particular by Red Giant should have everything you need. Create the variety of particles that you're looking for, and keyframe the location of the producer so that it swings back and forth at the desired intervals. Then apply a linear wipe effect with a mild feather and time it so that the texxt wipe in or out as desired underneath the particles. That should be about it.

 

[knightly]

Or write your text on a piece of clear plastic or glass using a water soluble ink, suspend over water at a very slight angle when dry enough to do so, light the liquid from below (may have to build a light box for it), then slowly lower the glass slide into the water so it dissolves starting at one end while shooting it from above.