Quick Tip – How To Achieve Realistic Snow Fall

Quick Tip – How To Achieve Realistic Snow Fall

on Aug 8th 2011 with 12 comments
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Even though we’re still a ways away from seeing any snow, today’s tutorial will show you how to make a realistic snow fall scene using Trapcode Particular in After Effects.

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Chandan Kumar is a VFX artist from India with having more than 6 years of experience in both production and education. He runs his own website www.vfxrider.com where he produces video tutorials on After Effects.  

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  • First

    FIRST! You Losers

  • Luke

    Nice short tip. A little hard to understand the voice (USA’ian here). The level of the voice seemed to fluctuate a lot, maybe some running some compressor effects would help?

  • Joshua

    Silly to add gaussian blur on a mask like that. Just feather it. It will take up less processing power. If you need to add a blur, use fast blur.

  • Bwakathaboom

    Just curious, what elements in this tutorial really required Trapcode? It looks like something that could be done with standard particles.

    It’s a good tutorial, don’t get me wrong. The community’s over reliance on plug-ins is just a pet peeve of mine.

  • Sam Swire

    Great tutorial, simple though but effective, specially for Particular beginners and I really like that foggy touch you added with the white mask. I’ll point out that I never had any issues what so ever with you language and to point out I’m Swedish.

    Keep up the great work and I would appriciate more tutorials from Kumar!

    • http://www.vfxrider.com Chandan Kumar
      Author

      Thanks Sam to like the tutorial.

  • Alex

    Amazing tutorial, nice english, very good, I like the how it worked out that effect, but I think it would be really cool if you added motion blur to the snow, tw would be more real you know, cause its really hard to a camera to detect sharp movement, and not alot of saturation, a little is perfect, but everthing else is great, keep the good work!

  • Glenn

    Thanks for the tutorial. Clear as a bell here in Australia. It’s always great to see how people do stock effects. We all do things differently and sometimes a blur is preferable to a feather. I appreciate you putting this together. Cheers.

  • Sudhir

    Namaste Chandan Kumar ji,

    Exellent tutorial, really short and sweet.

    Will definitely play around with this.

    Greetings from South Africa ;-).

    • http://www.vfxrider.com Chandan Kumar
      Author

      @ Sudhir- Thanks to like the tutorial.

  • http://www.robotika.org William

    Here’s another method for snow that I used a few years back: blow some flour against a black screen.

    Check out this video demonstration if you’re interested.

    ciao,
    william

  • http://www.urdututorials.net Hassan Ali Khalid

    Great intro Chandan Kumar.