In this After Effects Tutorial, you’ll learn, how to easily create a liquid effect - using standard effects!
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First of all, we draw some drops, using the pen tool. Then we add the “4-color gradient“ effect and add “bevel and emboss“ to the shape layer in “layer styles“.
After we changed some settings, we clean up the shape layer by moving all 4 paths into one shape.
We reduce the opacity and add the “turbulent displace“ effect for some more