Realistic Fog Without 3rd Party Plug-ins
Tutorial Details
- Requirements: Just After Effects... enjoy!
- Difficulty: Intermediate
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Creating atmospheres within a 3d app can be tricky and there are often times when you just need a quick turn around without having to worry about render time. Today we’re gonna look at how to create realistic looking fog without the use of ANY 3rd party plug-ins. Enjoy!
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Perfect!
First?
I just saw the preview, but the result is really nice.
Thanks man.
oh thx mr!!! very usefull. i ll watch it!
gr8 … keep em comin buddy :)
thats really cool .keep it up
Oh! Great tut! This was just what I was looking for!
Thank you ;)
Same thing for me! :) I was looking around on the internet to find something like this but there was no good tutorials. And then you uploaded this!
Your fog looks awesome!
Keep them coming man! ;)
Great work, it’s amazing what can you do with only the built in tools inside of AE. Good job!
I tried so many times to make realistic fog from the fractal noise, but this is a success !
Anyway, a bit of conviction and enthousiasm will be welcome in your next video tutorial ^^
Thanks a lot!
preview looks good! hope the tut is good
check my another video tutorial at cg.tuts too.
http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/autodesk-3ds-max/create-an-ivy-covered-tree-stump-with-3ds-max-ivy-gen-and-vray/.
Enjoy
awesome tuts.. keep it up.
thanks man great tut.
it will come in handy
Dude, great! Thanks for tip!
I hope, once you will get faster PC, looks like you did this tut on Pentium III.
HI,
Yes, computer is indeed slow, as I was recording from my home computer. But I work in I7 in my studio.
Thanks.
great tuts that i also want to make so this will be very helpful for me now, thanks for this tutus.
amazing tuts keep it up this will help in many ways
gr8 tut bro
awesome
thanks for publishing
this is going on my new project
yippie!!!!! :-)
oh what a useful tutorial. its makes my life easier .thanks man………..
once again it’s a awesome tutorials………..
Great job
Nice tut but i dont have CC can u tell me what to do? i need CC particle world, CC vector Blur…. can u tell me wher to download and how to install?
it seems very good thanks for your tuts and keep it up
Awesome job, it’s a really great tutorial.
didn’t know we can create Fog without using extra plugin. Great work of art !!!
check this out it’s realy good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HznOEIR7_Go
cool tuts !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
looks good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh! Great tut! its very fantastics …………….
Thank you
Hey Sachin bro…………..Great tuts…………….Just what I was looking for……………………
Thanks
Loved The Tuts………………Keep the tuts coming………………….
Great job bro hats up …..keep it up
really nice work lot of more things need to learn from you bro so thanks
my fog problem is solved………………………..
thanks man
The output is looking great…………………..
Pretty cool bro,……………..
m very happi to learn such things………….
i wan to learn more bro…..
so thanx alot….. its good….
awesome….liked it.
very good tutorial and very useful.
Thankyou
Nice…two thumbs up!!!
thanks a lot for sharing this tip, one of the best tutorials here …
now I can go “fog-ation” as much as I want :D
Amazing tutorial, but seriously speak up, i almost fell asleep halfway through. Your voice is insanely boring. You sounded like you wanted to die or something. Most people watch certain tutorials because they want to see a particular person teach it.
Pretty cool
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Nice tutorial; I need to play with CC vector blur some more. I don’t understand the need to stagger the layers in 3D or to create a camera in this instance. Depth of field? But you didn’t switch that on. Also, wouldn’t it make more sense to invert your gradient wipe at the end so that the fog obscured the logo rather than revealing it?
Hi, oczkowksi,
Camera was there if you wish to animate, but I did not in this tutorial, If you like you could animate the camera or attach it to null and give some kind of depth like dof as you mention. And about the logo reveal, I was more concern about the effects itself rather that reveal portion as there are lots of tutorial for this type of effects,
Anyways, thankyou for the wonderful comments,
happy after effecting
Sachin
After Effect Was Cooler to work with this tuts……………………..Thanks Mate
Oh Hello !!! Great Tutotial………………..ae.tuts Rocks………………….Thanks Sachin Bro…………..Fog Is looking great an realistic. Its amazing to see that without using any plugins we can create such output…………Thanks again
my next tut online at cgtuts
check it out.
http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/autodesk-3ds-max/create-a-cool-looking-ink-effect-using-fumefx-3ds-max-and-after-effects/
Dear Sachin,
I really agree some of my friends and it was such a wonderful, helpful and useful tutorial.. “without thirdparty plug-in” part is my favorite!!! thank you again.. I wish you success, more and more…
hi its nice tutorials sir i like thanks……………………
Never thought of creating this type of realism inside after effects. Thank you very much for your tutorial.
Very Very Very Useful.
a nice piece of tut ,,,,,,,,,,,,
Hi guys,
First of all, Sachin thanks a lot for creating this tutorial. I’m trying to do this but something like 30seconds long. So 6x more than in your preview.
I figured out that I can just increase the Offset Turbulence – and I did, I had something like 8000 and -7000. Everything looks really cool, but when I’m trying to “Make Movie” no matter with what compression and different settings my After Effects CS3 crushes everytime when it is trying to render 20-40 frame. I have no idea why is that.
I can send you my project (200kB + logo).
My computer parameters:
AMD Athlon 64 Processor
3800+
2,41 GHz, 3,00 GB RAM (but AE is reading only 2 GB because of Windows XP)
I’m begging you for some help.
Simon :)
Hi Simon,
One thing you can do is loop your effects so that you dont have to render that long.
and if you want to render the whole length and getting crash, try reseting the after effects(you know, it works for me when i get the crash), and also try turning on caps lock while rendering.
Good luck and let me know.
Regards
Sachin
this is a great effect and use of fractal noise, but this could be much more awesome if the tutorial was written instead of being a video. I couldn’t follow the narration very well and had to repeat parts over and over again. I’d much rather see the steps written down. Thanks for the tutorial nonetheless!