Speech bubbles?

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Speech bubbles?

Is it possible to create a speech/thought bubble in motion? I want it to have a cartoon-like effect associated with it. Any suggestions?

17 inch MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.2), 2GB of RAM

Posted on May 31, 2008 11:04 PM

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Answer 1

Jun 1, 2008 12:14 AM in response to Fenster McManus

Yes, it is possible, even easy.

See this for tracking a label (could be modified to be a thought bubble):

http://www.motionsmarts.com/tutorials/matchmove1/mm1.html

Patrick

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Answer 2

Jun 1, 2008 9:38 AM in response to Patrick Sheffield

This is totally awesome! Thanks!

Do you have any recommendations on where I can find a funny looking speech bubble that has an alpha channel? I was thinking someone along the lines of this...

http://www.culham.ac.uk/sg/cheshire/images/bubblethoughtl.gif

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Answer 3

Jun 1, 2008 9:46 AM in response to Fenster McManus

well copy that into photoshop, select the white around the outside and hit delete. Might have to clean it up a bit here and there. Drag into motion and you're done.

adam

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Answer 4

Jun 1, 2008 10:56 AM in response to Fenster McManus

You could use a 'dingbat' font for the thought bubble. Like these:

Carr Balloons

Talk

Komika Bubbles

Hope that helps.

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Answer 5

Jun 1, 2008 12:23 PM in response to Fenster McManus

Easy to make your own. I did this in a coupla minutes...

Just create an open arc using the bezier tool, then replicate it, I used a Geometry Shape and dragged an oval into the Shape Source well. Then an open V-shape completes it...

You can even animate it by playing with the Offset parameter...

Patrick

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Answer 6

Jun 2, 2008 8:06 PM in response to Patrick Sheffield

Photoshop has a speech bubble shape in the shapes palette.

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