u/RoybertoBenzin

Made with love and MatterAE

So I'm looking for quite some time for a way to automatically generate hard, straight cutout edges. They should work on texts, precomps and pngs. They are relatively easy to create with a mask, but I want to automate the process.

I looked into expanding edges with simple choker and mask chocker. To change the edges I tried roughen edges, turbulent displace and cell pattern.

Cell pattern with the plates preset is promising, but I don't know how to actually crush the alpha to use the straight lines as edges. (see the 3rd example in the picture.)

I hope that someone smarter than me can figure a simple, single effects stack to accomplish this. Thanks for your help.

I built a preset to easily create water sparkles, or sun glitter. It also has a glow, a pixelate effect and a 4 cross star. You can even change the values "Sparkle Blobbiness A" and "Sparkle Blobbines B". So that's something!

Unfortunately it's quite processor heavy. But it just uses AE's built in effects, so you can experiment with it, and manually disable effects as you want. You can also share your files with people who don't have the preset, and it should still work.
No AI was used, I stole the expressions myself. Some I even wrote myself.

Get the free Water Sparkles Preset v0.7 here: https://linktr.ee/HannesSeth (first link).
I hope it will bring you a little joy, or even help you with some project.

If you encounter any bugs, feel free to contact me.