• Adobe After Effects

  Any tips on how to make this smoke mask out smartly? ;)

  Posted by Daniel Haskett on May 24, 2005 at 2:46 pm

  Hi there

  Ive got an image here https://rapidshare.de/files/1953410/gangster-smoke.jpg.html If you scroll to the bottom of the page you can download it there. Basically I want the smoke from their cigarettes to well…move and look like smoke moving, but Im finding it quite tricky, is it just a case of lots of intricate masking? Hope im not asking too many questions!

  Thanks

  Dan

  Filip Vandueren replied 21 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Filip Vandueren

  May 24, 2005 at 9:50 pm

  For starters, isolate the elements you want to move from the gangsters.

  I would do it in Photoshop, not in AE. Just start with the lasso or path tool and get both of the smokeplumes on their own layer.
  Then erase the smoke from your gangster-leyr.

  Apply some distort-filters to the smoke, something like turbulent displace should do the trick.

  Also, if you drew this yourself. why not draw a version of the smoke that goes perfectly up and that can be seamlessly tiled vertically.
  You can then apply an offset filter before your distortion, making a nice upward motion for the smoke.

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