Create This Wave Distortion Effect!

by the end of this video you're going to be able to make this wave pulse effect for your car video actually first the sword is done by edward ov as a pulsating base effect and i've since it done with cars so i thought i'd try it myself so let us begin so let's set things up by opening your clip in after effects i'm using this shot of this f-type jaguar by the way if you want access to this exact project file to follow along links for that are available below the way this effect works is you first you create a pulse with some animated circles and then you add the displacement effect so let's create some circles right click in this open space new solid and let's make it white let's get the ellipse mask tool and from the center let's draw a circle but we hold shift to keep the proportion circular and also hold ctrl or command to increase the size from this point however if you also hold space you can move this around to wherever you want so you've just created a mask on this solid let's animate an increase in diameter by going to the mask mask expansion click the stopwatch move a few frames increase the expansion until it covers the screen which ends up leaving us with this but would need this to be like a doughnut so we copy the mask with controller command d invert it change add to intersect delete that final point and you can see at the beginning we have a donor so let's go forward a few frames and increase the expansion to allow us to have the doughnut expand and we do this by going through all the frames until we have the shape that you want this shape is a personal preference and will determine how your wave will look also you can play around with the speed of the animation just by adjusting where the keyframes are once we have our animation we need to add some feathering to the inner mask added something around 200 pixels this tells the effect to distort areas with a gradient causing a very nice wave speaking of distortion let's distort let's right click pre-compose move all attributes to a new composition we can name this displacement shape let's make a new adjustment layer now there's two ways you can do this effect the freeway with the displacement map effect or the get your wallet out and put your camera on a rental site because you'll need the red giant chromatic displacement effect which will cost you some money actually there is a third way that you can do this so with the freeway let's drag the displacement map effect into our adjustment layer let's change the layer parameter to our displacement shape layer and we can also hide our displacement shape layer as we don't need it anymore in order to see the effect we increase the horizontal and vertical displacement you can start with a hundred and you see we get a pulse but when we play this through we get this black clipping so to remove this let's check wrap pixels around and this looks alright but i don't think a hundred is enough so let's bump the displacement to 900. now we're talking boom boom boom and now if you watch what we have if you want to change how the wave looks just double click on the displacement shape composition and then mess about with the shapes and the velocity and all that stuff also if you don't want this sharp edge you can add feathering to the outer mask too the more feathering the more of a gradient of displacement so once people are placing bids for your camera on ebay you can add the red giant chromatic displacement effect it's basically the displacement map on steroids so let's drag it on remembering to make your displacement shape invisible change the layer to the displacement shade and the first parameter we're going to play with is the displacement amount and immediately you can see how sick this looks i mean that's kind of cool isn't it but it's a bit much so i set mine to around 70 then i played with the soften displacement parameter which adds more of a gradient to the warp and i set that to 100 and then i played with the displacement spread which added some rgb set out to 83 drop the chroma to 70 bumped up the spread quality to 100 and boom and this is what the final shot looks like i see you looking at that fiery effect beforehand if you want to learn that you can check this video out right here this and all my project files are available on my patreons links below and with that being said i'll see you in the next video [Music]

Channel: Camilo Castañeda

Views: 57,180

Keywords: camilo castaneda, camicees, car wave effect, wave distortion effect, pulse effect, bass pulse effect, bass wave effect, bass effect after effects, after effects pulse effect, after effects wave animation, wave animation after effects, car wave effect tutorial, bass effect wheel, displacement map effect, how to use displacement map in after effects, displacement map after effects tutorial, chromatic displacement after effects, chromatic displacement tutorial

Id: ew-0MEw2iWM

Length: 3min 59sec (239 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 27 2022