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Falling Drops Tutorial

December 31st, 2007

As promised, the Falling Drops tutorial is complete.

You won’t need a particle generator for this one when I get out my expression-based particle system tutorial, coming soon. I mention this in the tutorial; basically i’ve got in the making a particle generator made of expressions rather than by a plug-in, that i’ll demonstrate this effect with. For the purposes of the length of this tutorial the expression-based particle generator will be released in another tutorial, for this one we’re using Particular. But fear not, this effect will be completely demonstrated without the need for said plug-in as soon as the expression tutorial is complete, so look out for that.

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This entry was posted on Monday, December 31st, 2007 at 7:59 pm and is filed under VFX-Tutorials.
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10 Responses to “Falling Drops Tutorial”

Chris Says:
January 1st, 2008 at 11:51 am
I really wish it wasn’t 3:30am when I discovered this had been posted. Awesome tutorial, can’t wait to try it. If people’s christmas’ weren’t that crash hot they are about to be given a very nice surprise when they see this one! Thanks mate, keep up the awesome work.
admin Says:
January 1st, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Thanks Glad you enjoyed it.
ferhat Says:
January 5th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
hi
I have a question,
I want to learn after effects but I dont know whinc programs goods. can you tell me whinc program is good for movie effect
admin Says:
January 5th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Hi,

The program(s) i use are Adobe After Effects for vfx, and Sony Vegas for editing.

Regards,

R.
Joseph Says:
January 6th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Hi,

It’s an interesting tutorial. However, I realised that I couldn’t fine one of the files you used, from the other magic tutorial. Is it possible you posted links to the project files? The image in particular.

Regards,
Joseph
admin Says:
January 6th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Hi Joseph,

I’ve been meaning to add a link to the image, it’s available now. Though you don’t have to use my texture, of course.

Regards,

R.
RandoomWalker Says:
January 6th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Hey, I was wondering, how did you make the background image(texture) for the drops?
admin Says:
January 7th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Hi,

It’s a modified still from my Magic tutorial. Basically, i took two ‘Magics’, doubled their velocity and set them to work at different angles and come in at different times. Added a lot of violent camera movement with motion blur, applied a hue adjustment for the colour, and added some fractal noise to roughen things up a bit.

The finished clip looked like this http://rhys-works.com/media/inside-drop - though the compression takes out a bit of the detail.

Regards,

R.
Cristina Says:
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Hi there!

I’m stuck. Where do I get CC Sphere from? My AE doesn’t have it…

Thank you!
admin Says:
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Hi Cristina,

The CyCore effects ship with After Effects as a package of third party plugins. With some versions of AE you have to install them from your installation CD, they may be in a folder of their own.

Regards

Rhys