Please HELP! how can I create this specific smoke effect in AE?

[Tom Morton]

Personally I wouldn’t – the easy way is buy a video with this effect from shutterstock, the harder way is I’d render it out in 3D – Cinema 4D has some smoke effects built in and I’d use them first to see what I could achieve.

If you really want to do it in After Effects I’d probably start with the Particle Systems II effect, and play with some slow particles fading upwards, you could make a wispy feathered piece of smoke as the particle and then mask it all to the area you want to keep it to.

Here’s a good tutorial that might help: https://motionarray.com/learn/after-effects/smoke-effects-in-after-effects/

motionarray.com

How to Create Atmospheric Smoke Effects in After Effects (+Templates) - Motion Array

Learn to create incredible smoke effects in After Effects! Make atmospheric smoke clouds and fog from scratch, or download some of our top templates.

[Andy Kiernan]

if youre talking about the blue behind the head logo, try turbulent noise, animating the evolution and offset, on a masked solid.

And a Turbulent displace over the ‘smoke’ and logo.

[Rahul Prabhat]

not likely because I tried that and it didn’t work or maybe I’m doing something wrong.

anyway, thanks for the response Andy.

[Rahul Prabhat]

Thankyou so much Tom, I think this just might work, I’ll try it right now