• Adobe After Effects

  Steam for a Coffee Cup

  Posted by Ross Kidd on September 15, 2008 at 4:16 pm

  Hi,

  I need to create steam coming off a coffee cup. Can someone give me some help achieving this.

  I tried animating with frames but I did not get the organic effect required and thing this is exactly the kind of thing AE is good at.

  Thanks,

  Ross

  David Bogie replied 17 years, 8 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
• 3 Replies

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  Tl Westgate

  September 15, 2008 at 4:40 pm

  Have you tried CC Particle World?

  — TL
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  Darby Edelen

  September 15, 2008 at 8:05 pm

  Either a particle system or Fractal Noise might work well for this.

  If you’re going to try Fractal Noise then I’d recommend using the ‘Strings’ noise type with a fairly low complexity (2 or 3), a reduced horizontal scale and an increased vertical scale.

  Darby Edelen
  
  NVIDIA
  Santa Clara, CA
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  David Bogie

  September 17, 2008 at 7:40 pm

  Foam has a credible smoke preset.
  Carefully examine some real steam on some real coffee. It’s easy to overdo these effects.
  Better yet, shoot some real steam heavily backlit against black and lay it over the footage using Screen

  bogiesan

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

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