Ice

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Check out
Mylenium’s Website for a possible solution.

HTH
Roland Kahlenberg
broadcastGEMs
customizable animated backdrops with Adobe After Effects project files

[Chris Smith]

We bid on a project where people and the environment were going to have to be frozen over. The FX company decided the best way was tp paint the ice effect in and animate it appearing over time. So it’s basically down to paint skills ut onto layers.

Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com

[Andrei Firtich]

Check out this tutorial
hxxp://homepage.mac.com/komaruyama/public/Fake_Frost_sm.mov
Courtesy of komaruyama
Here is his main tutorial page
hxxp://homepage.mac.com/komaruyama/Tutorials/
Hope this helps 🙂

[Jim Zito]

Not sure if it’s the kind of look you’d be going for, but for ground ice, you could shoot some scratchy ice at a hockey or skating rink and use a blending mode to composite it.