After Effects Tutorial: How to Create Realistic Rain at Night
Compositing realistic rain in After Effects can be a time and resource saver. This AE tutorial walks you through the process.
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?)
Fun fact: This shot was composited by our Creative Producer Sam Crowe, and was his first-ever VFX shot. If he could do it, so can you!
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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