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  • Making a Hurricane/Cyclone

    Posted by Dylan Usic on May 26, 2008 at 7:42 am

    Hi,

    Does anybody have any tips on creating a birds eye view of a hurricane/cyclone (looking down at the eye of the hurricane from above) in Adobe After Effects? Also if anyone has any tips on making this with Trapcode Particular?

    Thanks.

    Steph Foster replied 17 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Darby Edelen

    May 30, 2008 at 6:44 am

    What you can do is create a radial gradient in Photoshop, or in AE and pre-comp it.

    Then create a cloudy looking evolving and rotating fractal noise in another pre-comp.

    Place these two pre-comps together in another comp and use the radial gradient as a luma track matte for the fractal noise as well as to drive a Time > Time Displacement effect on the cloud pre-comp.

    This doesn’t give you an eye to the storm, but you should be able to mask one out fairly easily.

    Here’s an old one I made:

    https://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2337851367281373845

    Darby Edelen
    Lead Designer
    Left Coast Digital
    Santa Cruz, CA

  • Dylan Usic

    May 31, 2008 at 2:07 am

    Wow! That looks really nice! I am completely new with Trapcode Particular so I was wondering if it would be possible to turn the image you created into a displacement map and use that with Trapcode Particular? If you know how to do this could you go through the steps for me?

    Thanks.

  • Steph Foster

    June 5, 2008 at 11:02 am

    or you could put fractal noise on a solid layer and keyframe evolution over time.

    Now put an adjustment layer above it with a twirl effect on.
    Key frame rotating the adjustment layer.

    I made a project using this technique and it didn’t look too bad.
    drop me an e-mail if you’d like the project file.

    steph.p.foster {at} gmail {dot} com

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