• Adobe After Effects

  Headlights Through Fog (AE)

  Posted by Aron Kantor on December 5, 2006 at 4:56 pm

  I am making an animation of headlights driving down a road at night through the woods, which I animated in Cinema 4D. I would like to add some fog in the road, with the headlights shining through it, and thought it would be easier to achieve this in After Effects. I do have Particular in AE, but haven’t figured out how to make wispy fog like I am driving through it…

  Any thoughts?

  Thanks!

  David Bogie replied 19 years, 5 months ago 5 Members · 4 Replies
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  Justin Productions

  December 5, 2006 at 5:21 pm

  Search in the COW Archives, this has been discussed a lot.

  For everything else, there’s Mast..err..Fractal Noise.

  Justin Productions
  Tangerin01@hotmail.com
  Adobe After Effects 6.5 Professional
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  Tyler Paul

  December 5, 2006 at 5:34 pm

  Trapcode’s Lux should be a good start
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  Mylenium

  December 6, 2006 at 8:49 am

  See C4D forum.

  Mylenium

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  David Bogie

  December 7, 2006 at 6:42 pm

  We were doing this stuff back when AE first introduced 3D. You don’t need anything extra, you just some guidance. Get a copy of Angie Taylor’s AE5 book. Of course, this isn’t going to give you volumetric lighting effects interacting with swirling fog clouds. For that high zoot 3D stuff you do not need AE at all.

  bogiesan

  This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

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