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Creating a smoke effect in Aftereffects
I am looking to add smoke onto some stop motion animation footage that has been edited in FCP. One of the characters smokes a cigar, and I would like to add smoke so that it appears to come from this cigar. The cigar moves as the character brings it up to his face, and I would like the smoke to move accordingly. I have tried the ‘particle playground’ method, which I feel creates a good enough effect, but I’m not sure how to put this effect onto the actual footage and how to make it move in accordance with the footage.
Any help would be much appreciated!
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I strongly recommend getting footage of real smoke and compositing it into the shot, rather than simulating smoke with a particle effect. You can use Distort effects to bend and manipulate the real smoke. Simulating smoke is hard, render-intensive, and not as realistic as real smoke.
There are some tips in After Effects Help about working with smoke, too.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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