Water Effect

[Kathlyn Lindeboom]

You might try this one:
https://creativecow.net/articles/tierney_jim/caustics/index.html

Kathlyn Lindeboom
The Mistress of Mmmooooo!

[Serfior]

“psunami” plugin creates realistic water and reflections, it may help…

[David Lee]

I just did this yesterday. I just created a fractal solid, with settings as fractal type>max, noise>spline, complexity at 6, and contrast 150. Animate the evolution and play with the scale parimeter for sizing. The just place it over your seafloor with the add transfer mode. Hope it helps.
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Dave

[Yoondo]

Hey, that’s what came to my mind when I read the question.
But you need to take that a little further, though.

Take the animated fractal noise layer and precomp it, then use it as layer map
in caustics and select it as the water. This should give you some beautiful
looking water. If you need to, go back and adjust the fractal to change your
water to suit your needs.

Also in caustics, get a photo of ocean floor and use that as the bottom and so on.

Good luck.

[Alpay Kasal]

https://www.smvisuals.com/boru/tsunami.mov

Here’s a link to an old clip for an old client. This shows off one of the presets in the Psunami plugin and I remember seeing some very high quality caustics while playing with it. feel free to go one folder up for some other liquid-themed anims. enjoy.

Alpay Kasal
Artist/Engineer
https://www.NYCRenderfarm.com

[Storm Crow]

Very, very cool! This is just a preset in a plugin? So it should be very easy for a beginner?

[Alpay Kasal]

Yes, it’s very cool from the first second you start playing with it… I didn’t mention that I added the logo (via the plugin) and the colored bars are my own handywork…. but I’m sure you figured that much out. The plugin has so many presets too, even ones where the camera is underwater! I highly recommend it…. too bad I don’t have access to it anymore myself, I got to use it at a studio I sometimes freelance for 🙁

Alpay Kasal
Artist/Engineer
https://www.NYCRenderfarm.com