Creating a dustcloud when someone is hitting the ground

[Todd Kopriva]

It’s usually much easier and better looking to use real footage of dust rather than trying to create realistic-looking dust with a particle effect. Either shoot some dust yourself or get a stock footage element, and composite it in. You can use various effects to distort, color, and otherwise modify the base element(s) to fit in your scene.

Here’s one of my favorite sites for such assets:
https://www.detonationfilms.com/DV_DustAndSmoke.html

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[John Cuevas]

It looks like they used one from Action Essentials 2

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

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