
The very long awaited and featured rain over water sequence is now complete in tutorial form! This tutorial is in 3 parts detailing the initial texture, creating the water, and creating the rain, all completely inside After Effects. This one has been a long time coming and i’ve had a lot of requests on how to do it so i hope this satisfies you guys. Any questions, you know where to ask them.
As mentioned in the tutorial, the hi-rez quicktime version of the effect can be found here right click, save as.



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April 1st, 2008 at 5:37 am
Hey guy,
i really like your tutorial. Its really nice to see how you combine and use different Plugins to create this really realistic looking Effect, especially the water.
I saw the same Effect on a other AE Site with CC Particle World, but yours looking much better.
Whats your opinion to enhance the Water Drops with a rendered Particle by a 3D Programm like Cinema4D. Did u think it can improve the scene?
Many THX for this tutorial and greetiings from Germany
April 1st, 2008 at 5:57 am
btw. how long did you worked on the original projekt? I can imagine that its took Days, Weeks, Month to get the right settings.
April 1st, 2008 at 9:35 am
Hi Warti,
A 3D particle could work fine on enhancing the scene; in 3D you could add a lot more detail to each particle and such. Maybe you could take the water texture and create a reflection map on the particles.
In making the original it kind of happened in stages. I got the rough idea down in a couple of days to a week, and then kept coming back to it over time. I expect the final product wasn’t done for about a month.
April 5th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Awesome stuff!
Really enjoyed the tutorial, excellent work.
I’m thinking of making a rain sequence, and both this and your raindrop tutorial will come in extremely handy
Thanks for providing such a great source of Adobe After Effects Tutorials!
April 9th, 2008 at 4:59 am
Very cool

Thank you very much !!!!
Another one please
April 29th, 2008 at 4:40 am
Dud, so cool man!.. all the rain stuff..thnx a lot,
havent heard from u for a while,, wasap? T.C
May 2nd, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Dud are you alright?? T.C anyways,n thnx fore this great website!!!
May 2nd, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Hi hi
Everything’s fine, just extremely busy with my degree just lately. Hopefully i’ll have some updates for some more stuff soon, and i’m working on a new rhys-works service as we speak.
R.
May 4th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
thanks for the tuturial..it realy help mi to create special effect in my video that im doing this days…hope you make more tuturial…that helps the special effect creator..once again thanks…
and more thing can u help me how to create a fighting sceen justlike matrix…plssss help me….
ps hope youre repply
May 5th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
i’m italian, my english is not good
i don’t have trapcode plug-in so there was a method to create the rain?
May 7th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Hi
I haven’t yet made the tutorial for creating the rain without Particular. It’s on the list for future tutorials.
R.
May 23rd, 2008 at 9:22 pm
I right click on the files to save as, but for some reason it doesn’t work. I’d love to save the high-rez quicktime files, but all that I can do right now is click on the links and watch the flash rain over water tutorials.
May 26th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
http://rhys-works.com/media/Main_11.mov this is the link to the hi-rez effect, see if that works.
R.
May 29th, 2008 at 5:55 am
Nice tutorial,
I have one problem I have not the CC Starbust on my after effects,
Do you know where I can get this effects?
May 29th, 2008 at 7:52 am
It’s a CyCore Fx plugin. It should ship with your version of After Effects.
May 31st, 2008 at 9:57 pm
yeah i have the same problem.
i have adobe effects CS3 and i dont have cc starburst in my effects.
i have a starbust in my synthetics… but how do i go on with the tutorial?
im kinda stuck… :\
can i download that effect ?
June 1st, 2008 at 3:55 pm
The CyCore effects plugins are a set of plugins that ship with After Effects. i.e. you have them straight out of the box. They’re made by the cycorefx group and have been bundled with AE for some time. When you buy AE, you buy those too.
June 2nd, 2008 at 5:40 am
yeah i didn’t buy it though…
so it didn’t come in a box.
June 2nd, 2008 at 6:01 am
yeah same here because i downloaded the demo version so i dont have those things.
you should let us be able to download your project file like that guy does at videopilot.com
its really helpful.
June 2nd, 2008 at 7:06 am
Project files will be coming as part of something else some time in the future.
June 3rd, 2008 at 6:36 am
I have found the plugin and now I can finaly continue with the tutorial thank you very much!