Simple
AE Fractal Effects
by
ditt0bxEver seen those nifty,
smooth animations done with After effects? Ever thought how
hard can be to learn working with After effects? Well, if
you take "baby steps" you will see that working with this
amazing software is not as difficult as you might think and
it can also turn out being fun and addictive
Here is an example of something that you can
create in AE using this tutorial:
[ a sky effect created
in AE ]
Sky
In this tutorial I'll show you some things that can be
done easily, even if you open After Effects for the
first time:
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Create a new project with
a new composition about 5 seconds long and about the
size you want the sky to be. I created mine at 640
width/480 height.
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Then insert a new solid
layer and click on Make comp size to make it the same
size as your composition. Then go to
effect/noise/fractal noise
and use these settings:
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Fractal type: Basic
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Noise type: Soft
Linear
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Invert- checked
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Contrast: 354
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Brightness: 10
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Overflow: soft clamp
Now go to Effects, Adjust, Hue Saturation, check
colorize and move the sliders of the Hue, Saturation
and contrast till you get the color you desire for
the skies. Mine are:
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Hue: 210
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Saturation: 48
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Lightness: 51
Now in the timeline go to
the drop-down menu of effects to the Fractal Noise
effect. Set a keyframe for evolution at frame 1 with the
default value 0x0.0 and at the last frame set another
key frame, making the value 1x0.0.
However if you want your
clouds to move faster, you can set it to 2x0.0 etc.
Moving Waves Now some variations to create other stuff. In the same
composition, on The Fractal Noise effect change the
following values:
Now you have moving
waves!
There are various other
special effects you can create by experimenting with
different settings! I hope this tutorial helped, and if you
have any questions, feel free to post on the forums.
Regards!
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