After Effects Tutorial: How to Create Realistic Rain at Night

After Effects Tutorial: How to Create Realistic Rain at Night

November 18, 2021
Jonathan Fields

Compositing realistic rain in After Effects can be a time and resource saver. This AE tutorial walks you through the composition process.

You asked we listened! In this After Effects tutorial, we will show you how to add rain VFX in your shot using 4 easy steps that will save you valuable time and resources (rain towers, anyone?)


This tutorial will cover:

Creating a “rain at night” atmosphere
Creating rain fx using an adjustment layer.
Adding raindrops hitting the car and ground
Using Puppet Pin Tool to bend layers


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