how to create liquid in AE ?

[onetrackmind]

Hi

does anyone know a useful way of creating individual water droplets in AE that can be perhaps rotated in 3d space ?

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[oneinfiniteloop]

Use Particular and a custom particle with some displacement/caustic effects should get you close. This is the only non-3D method of doing this to where you can move the camera in 3d space and see full dimensionality.

[Barry_S]

It all depends on exactly what kind of water drops you need. Rain-sized? Close ups of deforming droplets? You might be able to get away with using a plug-in particle system like Trapcode Particular. You can try their demo at:

http://www.trapcode.com/products_particular.html

If you need something fancier, then a full blown 3-D modeling program would be your choice, and then you'd do the compositing in AE.

[onetrackmind]

thanks, guys for the advice, the rain drops will be close ups, want to be able to create some sort of bullet time effect with one shot and morph them into stills in others, in 3d space within ae...full 3d is not in my bag of tricks just yet, but if anyone also knows of a link (or software) to a simple way of creating actual 3d droplets, would be much appeciated...will try the trapcode plugin for now...

thanks again

best

GT

[MiniMan13]

Checkout This site, they have a very cool Water generating Plugin for AE7
http://www.panopticum.com/products_ae.shtml
http://www.panopticum.com/ae/water/water.shtml

I have the trial of that one, and ill tell you now, rendering takes forever.

[brianodom]

Checkout This site, they have a very cool Water generating Plugin for AE7
http://www.panopticum.com/products_ae.shtml
http://www.panopticum.com/ae/water/water.shtml

I have the trial of that one, and ill tell you now, rendering takes forever.

I Co-Sign ...that thing will cripple a PC:violin:

[simosh sunuwar]

Water Drops can be created easily using Trapcode Particular

[onetrackmind]

any links to a tutorial for the water drops ?

Best

GT

[Ogrus]

any links to a tutorial for the water drops ?

Best

GT

panopticum are not the worlds best plug-ins.
Tutorials for water drops, i have never seen, but check AKramer's ink splatter tuto on videocopilot, maybe that will give you an idea...

[SomewhereinLA]

You might want to check Particle Illusion.

http://www.wondertouch.com/

Here you can see some of their water samples:

http://www.wondertouch.com/movies/water_small.mpg

[onetrackmind]

here is the best/realistic creation of rain drops i have seen in ae, done by this artist Pierre Michel - Polar 2007 http://www.trapcode.com/gallery.html

[Ogrus]

particular or particle illusion is the way to go

[SomewhereinLA]

Trapcode makes exelent products. I have never work with Particular, but you should give it a try as well. Both software can be dowloaded as a trial version.