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Wet Road effect
Hello,
I have some footage I edited with AE 6.5 Pro. Some bikes going down a country road. Weather was kinda grey so I added some clouds and rain. Looks great but I realized the road is not wet. Can it be possible to create this look or effect and animate it in AE 6.5 or is there a plug a need to buy?
I would appreciate any help. I am not expert but I have learned soooo much from you guys and the experts that roam the forums at the COW. Thanks so much guys!T
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5 Replies
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Hi there,
You will probably have to animated the rain drops manually to get things to look just right. For a concept on a project that I was working on a while back, I’ve done this before with the rain on top of a photo I took on an England bike path in the woods and it looked okay, not too bad. For some quick depth perception I added a tree in the foreground. The final cut looked 1000 times better after some serious work (including animated clouds and shadows from the clouds). But you should get the idea. To be honest I basically created the rain with particles in 3D and then animated a fractal noise layer (for the rain drops) over a mask on the path itself and worked with the transfer modes for this concept.You can see it here for now, it’s about 8.5mb so please be patient for the download.
https://www.visualseparation.com/temp/path_and_rain_sm.mov
You may be able to do this with Caustics and waveworld (reflections, and raindrop displacement respectively).
If it’s just certain areas of the road or perhaps just the surface of the road like a skin over the top of it. For starters I would use two layers, one as your background plate (just the road perhaps), and the other with a mask cutting out the road from other elements in the scene. Then fill that mask with a color like a really light grey (175,175,175) or whatever color that suits the scene and mess around with the transfer modes to produce a wet look, and then create a fractal noise layer on top of that and adjust accordingly to create the rain drops (animate over time).
Another way to work with a water surface is to use the plugins from Digital Anarchy here:
https://www.digitalanarchy.com/section/section_ae-nature.htmlOr to learn about Caustics and Waveworld, read Jim Tierney’s tut here at the cow:
https://www.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=/articles/tierney_jim/caustics/index.htmlHope that helps you,
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You’ll probably want to create some sort of reflection of the bikes over top of the water layer as well.
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Tom.
Thank you so much for the input and for sharing your project with me. It looks awesome! I’m going to start working on mine this weekend. I will try your ideas and hopelly I will be able to share my progress with you. Thank you for your time and response.
T
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You know, that is a great idea! I did not think of that. Thanks for the idea! I will surely try to make the reflections. I can do reflections with Photoshop CS2 but I have no idea how to make them with AE 6.5 Pro. I guess I will have do do some research and also maybe some of the masters and geniuses at this forum will be willing to share some ideas.
Thank you for your time and response.T
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Not a prob, passing on the knowledge is always a good thing in my book…
Tom
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