• Adobe After Effects

  how to create foam off big waves?

  Posted by Simon Edwards on March 20, 2009 at 10:48 pm

  Hi all,

  I’m creating a surfing animation which is in the same sort of style as this piece by Rob Chiu, https://theronin.co.uk/Motion/?Black_Day_To_Freedom.mov

  Its going to be very still and the camera mostly adding the energy, I just wanted to know what you guys thought was the best way to create the foam off the waves as I can’t seem to get a nice effect with particle playground? I was thinking something similar to the black effect in Rob Chiu’s work but have no idea how to go about it

  Thanks!

  Simon Edwards replied 17 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Filip Vandueren

  March 21, 2009 at 12:32 am

  The effects in that movie are just some paint splatter layers animated by hand. Very simple move with 2 keyframes in 3D, perhaps some scaling, but mostly just parallax 3D camera action.
  about 4-5 max per time.
  Get creative with paint and scan it in, or buy some stock splats.

  There are also a few ‘ink tank’ shots composited in, You can buy some at videocopilot for cheap!
  https://www.videocopilot.net/products/riotgear/
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  Simon Edwards

  March 21, 2009 at 10:48 pm

  Thanks for the help, really usefull!

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