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Puffy clouds of Doom
Greetings. I was writing for advice on how to create some animated clouds to be integrated into a still background. I have been toying with some 3d software, mainly lightwave and not really getting the desired results. I was wondering if there was an easy way of doing this in AfterEffects, perhaps using the Particles there or some fractal noise or something. Or alternately if you could poin me in the direction of some Clouds.movs that would also be appreciated. Thanks in advance for your reply.
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Hi Peter
for ready made clouds check out
you could make your own in AE using a few layers of FN with soft masks and various transfer modes
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check out digital anarchys Aurora Sky plug-in (looks great but the renders can be long)
this has been discussed on here lots of times, do a search of the archives to see in detail what the Guru’s have recomended
HTH
Angus
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Particular does it well too. Best bet is if your looking at 3d look up volumetric studies, which is what I’ve been working on. I use 3dsmax so for that, 3rd party plugs like Pyrocluster and Afterburn are up for the job. They do fantastic Volumentrics with random noise and and can make any cloud situation. Other then that with a bit of practise you can pull it off with some displacement noise shaders and raytraced shadows that use white as a mix mode with an opacity setting (so when there is more on top of each other, it actually creates more density allowing less light to travel through). Anyways, hope some of that helps 🙂
..::hunz..
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You could check out some of the tutorials right here on the cow! Jayse’s Surreal Clouds Without plug-ins, or Richard’s Flying Through Clouds.
I quite like Jayse’s.I believe Ayato’s got a tutorial as well… yes he does.
You can also do a forum search here, clouds have been discussed before. (Don’t forget to check the archives too)
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do you by any chance watch invader zim. Your title is such a zim line .. 😛 cheers, just had to ask.
..::hunz..
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Are you talkin’ to me? I’ve never even heard of Invader Zim. I live in the UK, would that affect my hearing about this Zim thing? It sounds interesting.
– The Great Szalam
(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great)No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.
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Haha, sorry talking to the original poster .. Zim always puts “DOOM” on the end of everything so I thought I might ask the question. As for Invader Zim, it’s an off beat cartoon made by Jhonen Vasquez (well, known for his twisted and dark sense of humour in comics) which got axed a few years back. It’s very intresting, if your into cartoons 😛 Anyways, enjoy…
..;:hunz..
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