Help creating an effect in Illustrator

I am trying to create an effect on a vector based object but struggling to find out how to do it. The effect has been created by a previous designer at a different agency and I am unsure of what they have used.
Can anyone help with an idea on how to re-create this?

But you can approximate it by sending one black and one white copy of each shape behind the shape, moving each horizontally and vertically until enough of it shows, then add feather or blur, play with opacity levels, etc. until you get close to what you want.
Edit: Except, of course, for the inverse shapes within. I'm feverish, so I'll shut up now.

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I am wondering if anybody here could help me with an effect I am trying to achieve?
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The effect I wish to achieve can be seen right at the start of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E3oIbO0AWE
Apologies for the link. It really is the only video I can find that has the effect I want to achieve.
Martin.

The tutorial on the Video Copilot site that Mylenium points to is good, but the video that ML1990 pointed to uses something even more simple (crude): a linear wipe transition and a scribble drawn on with something like the Write-on effect.
So, I recommend going with what Mylenium posted, but it won't give exactly the same result as what ML1990 posted.

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After Effects has a Wiggle property that can do that:
http://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/after-effects-wiggle-expression/

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Bill & Sulaco, I so want to thank both of you for your help. Here is the final result of your help and exactly what I wanted. Also a pic of my layers to show how your help ended with me getting the results I needed.Help was really appreciated.
This is my history and how I did it. You 2 really were a help and getting me thinking. Just could not wrap my head around this and knew it was an easy thing to do. Note some of the history was unnecessary and was eliminated afterwards.

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How do I create an effect on on object similar to this on Illustrator?
Please see the type show in the link provided : "CHIVAS"
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-F-lpKYp-QnE/UH8jwTkTmfI/AAAAAAAAOWQ/BuN9gm9Pe5U/s1600/Chivas+log o+2012.jpg
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Hello Ellie,
This is what I do:
First Create the brushes by selecting the shapes desired. Select the shape and place it into the burshes window.
(Main Menu: Window + Brushes)
Then A new window will show: Please select "New Scatter Brush"
After you click OK, a new window will appear:
In here I have selected Random Size, Spacing and Rotation. You may want to adjust the percentages to you design. The last thing to select is the Colorization Method; in this case "Tints" is selected because will allow me to change the color of the shape by using the color pallet window. After that click Ok and use the brush tool.
This is the end result after using the Mask Feature:
I know you can do something a lot better than this sample. I hope this helps!

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I am trying to create this image on illustrator, if someone can tell me how, what i tired to do was create a grid, using the rounded rectangle tool, making them about 30 px by 30 px with about 5 px space between them, then use the 3d rotate tool, and get something close, but on the picture the gap seems to curve a little, and with the gird i get strait lines, how would i get that slight curve effect, if someone can send me a link that can walk you though would be great.

If you're careful and manipulate the Bloat tool settings properly you can create some bit of that curvature to
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Hi, In need of help creating a simple effect to image.

Attached is an image which shows more or less the effect I am needing to achieve.
http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn149/Jaybeedubya/FotoliaComp_635945_xs3N3VFLwPNTIOm1.j pg
I created the image above by desaturating the colour image of the man and then adding a new purple layer and selecting 'vivid light' from the layer palette drop down box. In doing this the man became purple but the white area surrounding him stayed white...I then adjusted the layers on the first layer so that the white part became purple - the final result is what you see in the attached image.
The problem is this - I need to create this effect for 15 or so images all with a specific purple pantone colour, I need to create these for print ready artwork. All the pictures (ie the man) I will be using, need to look the same kind of shade. The way I was creating these before was to adjust the bottom layer so its grey rather than white so that the white area becomes purple.
Confusing huh, If you dont understand my question (and I dont blame you!) then all I need is to create a set of 15 images that look like the attached image (using a specific pantone) but I have no idea how the best way to do it is.
How would you guys achieve that? Any help greatly appreciated.

So its gonna be a two-color-job?
Because with the extreme depths adding Black at least might be beneficial.
You could make a Selection of a black&white-version-of-the-photographs luminance, inverse it and, in the Channels-Panels PopUp-menu, choose Add New Spot Channel for the Foreground color and select the Pantone color.
Then Add New Spot Channel for the background-color and fill that solid black and hide the layers that contain the composite of the photograph.
This should leave You with blank composite channels and the two Spot Channels visible.
Indesign can handle either psd- or DCS2-files containing Spot Channels.
The problem I perceive here is that depending on the print-process and the background color selected it might proof necessary to knock out the foreground elements if the company is very strict on their CI colors. Unfortunately simply inversing the foreground selection would probably not work as this might leave the mixed-color-areas greyish.
Are the prints gonna be offset or silkscreen?

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Hellos everyone, Big noob here,
Also just recently started using AE CS4
I wanted to create a effect based on these things:
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7YDZLEME
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As Mylenium says, there's information here on selecting by word.
There are a bunch of examples for text animation here:
"Example and resources for text animation"
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"Getting started with After Effects (CS4 and CS5)"

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So I'm making the visual part of my connect four program. I'm trying to create the effect of dropping the piece from the top of the board to the bottom. I use the timer swing to create the animation and the animation works fine. My problem is to make the piece seem like it's between the board whereas right now the piece is in front of the board.
To see what I mean...here's the board without any pieces
Please click --> https://students.washington.edu/porrkice/connect4.jpg
Here's the board with a piece in the process of "dropping" into the bottom
Please click --> https://students.washington.edu/porrkice/connect43.jpg
The way I "drew" the board is this, and the piece is this...
public void paintComponent(Graphics the_g) {
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And what I want is when the piece is dropping, when it goes pass the white circles which represents holes on the board, the yellow part between the holes will be on top of the piece
Hopefully I made my problem clear enough and someone could lend me a hand.
Edited by: inspiredone on Feb 13, 2008 12:06 AM
Edited by: inspiredone on Feb 13, 2008 12:06 AM

Here's an example of what Darryl suggested:
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import javax.swing.*;
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        add( board );
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          setVisible( true );
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          private Piece addingPiece = null;
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               setPreferredSize( new Dimension( size, size ) );
               setBounds( 0, 0, size, size );
               pieceDropped = new Timer( 10, this );
               addMouseListener( new MouseAdapter() {
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                         int column = ( e.getPoint().x-pos )/incr;
                         addPiece( column );
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               super.paintComponent( g );
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               int h = d.height;
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             Graphics2D gbi = buffImg.createGraphics();
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               gbi.fillRect( 0, 0, w, h );
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               gbi.setColor( Color.RED );
               for ( int row = 0 ; row < 4 ; row++ ) {
                    for ( int column = 0 ; column < 4 ; column++ ) {
                         if ( pieces[row][column] == 1 ) {
                              gbi.setComposite( AlphaComposite.getInstance( AlphaComposite.SRC_OVER, 1.0f ) );
                         } else {
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               if ( addingPiece == null ) {
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                         addingPiece = new Piece();
                         addingPiece.row = 0;
                         addingPiece.column = column;
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                         addingPiece.y = 0;
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                    } else {
                         getToolkit().beep();
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                         pieces[row-1][addingPiece.column] = 1;
                         addingPiece = null;
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This can probably be done in some ways in illustrator but it will probably involve a lot of works like you already find out.
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I didn't have any young people to use in an example, so I give you some of 'The Convention Committee'
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