• Adobe After Effects

  Fractal Ocean

  Posted by Scottt on October 1, 2005 at 7:14 am

  Hi, I’m using AE 5.5, and I need to create an animated ocean surface. Does anyone know how to do this, perhaps using the Fractal effect?

  Thanks,

  Scott

  Scottt replied 20 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Chris Smith

  October 1, 2005 at 2:34 pm

  Ideally you woud use the plug-in ‘psunami’ or create the surface in true 3D. But somewhere I saw a bump map plug-in for AE. It may be worth a shot. That way you could pipe in the fractal noise to the bump map effect and get somewhat of a look. But bump mapping won’t get you the swells (geometry is better for that) but for riples and other surface features, bump mapping is good.

  Chris Smith
  https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com
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  Andrew Kramer

  October 1, 2005 at 5:41 pm

  Here I made this, Its certainly not as good as psunami but it may work.
  play around with the evolution options of the fractal noise.

  http://www.VideoCopilot.net/ocean.aep

  Andrew
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  Scottt

  October 4, 2005 at 7:02 am

  Thanks guys, I really appreciate it! I want to get Psumani, Knolls Light Factory and all the rest, unfortunately, budget restricts me. Even though I work in TV, motion graphics is primarily a hobby that -maybe- one day I’ll get to do professionally.

  Thanks again,

  Scott

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