Water drop

[Joe Moya]

Take a look at this… he does a very good job of making realistic rain drops.

https://www.studiodaily.com/main/technique/casestudies/8355.html

My only complaint is that I wished he would explain more detail about the methods he used.

Joe

[David Bogie]

Wave World, a woefully underused grayscale generation utility, will create superrealistic ripples. It’s fabulous. But the output requires a second filter such as Caustics to make the effect visible.

Creating a water drop is another challenge altogether, unrelated to the ripples.

bogiesan

[Darby Edelen]

[bogiesan] “But the output requires a second filter such as Caustics to make the effect visible.”

Wave World + Caustics = headache of a render… although it does look pretty =)

I like to pre-render a Wave World comp, then use it for a Displacement effect on an Adjustment layer and set its blending mode to something like soft light or overlay.

Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
Aptos, CA