SPLAT!

This evening I decided to test the blood splat idea Josh suggested to me, using a combination of photoshop, flash and premiere I have quite a nice looking versatile splat.

First I found a nice image of a splat and traced over in photoshop.

I saved this as a PNG image. Then using a combination of the tools colour select, select inverse and feather, I slowly ate away at the original splat, making it small and smaller over the space of 10 frames.

I imported this series of PNG images into flash where I arranged them, and exported a PNG sequence to use in Premiere.

I tested it over a scene in my animatic here. The beauty of doing it this way is it provides me the freedom of placement and size of the splats when I am in Premiere editing.