• Adobe After Effects

  frost smoke generator

  Posted by Dwayne Neckles on January 21, 2008 at 3:28 pm

  Can anyone show me a plugin that can animate the background smoky frost effect you see behind the icebergs

  dnecklesportfolio.com/transfer/iceberg.jpg

  check out this pic for a snap shot.. not the glaciers just the smokiness around. I know there are particle effects but those make the smoke go from one spot to another ( like smoke coming from a chimney ) I want the effect im looking for to stay in one spot and just kinda move around the icebergs because thats where the coldness is coming from..

  Thanks in advance
  PS I tried to get Delirium smoke but the plugin trial didnt come with smoke plugin yet it was in the pdf instruction manual

  Darby Edelen replied 18 years, 3 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Dwayne Neckles

  January 21, 2008 at 4:39 pm

  anyone??
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  Kevin Camp

  January 21, 2008 at 6:32 pm

  try fractal noise, animating the offset so it moves slightly upwards (or maybe downwards, since it’s cold air) and animating the evolutions. try a few different ‘fractal types’ and play with parameters like scale, complexity, contrast and brightness to get the smokey look your after.

  you can use feathered masks or soft track mattes to ‘crop’ the noise to the areas you want around the ice…

  Kevin Camp
  Senior Designer
  KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW
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  Olof Ekbergh

  January 21, 2008 at 8:43 pm

  Particular from red giant has some very tweakable smoke particles:
  https://www.redgiantsoftware.com/trapcodeparticular.html

  Westside A V Studios
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  Darby Edelen

  January 22, 2008 at 4:11 am

  I would definitely recommend Trapcode’s Particular.

  You can use things under the Physics drop down to animate your ‘frosty smoke’ in a more natural way. The turbulence field, for example, can alter the position of the particles based on a fractal noise function. There are also ‘spin’ properties that you might find useful.

  Darby Edelen
  Designer
  Left Coast Digital
  Santa Cruz, CA

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