How to create Realistic Procedural Clouds - After Effects Tutorial - No plugin

[Music] hi welcome everyone in this new After Effects tutorial I'll show you how to create super realistic clouds then I will show you how to generate different cloud instances for your final flying to see all of this in a short simple and amazing way so please don't forget to subscribe to my channel and comment will be welcome by the way enjoy the free project files link in the description [Music] in a new After Effects project file create a new composition rename it shape the size 1000 pixel by 1000 pixel looks okay 30 seconds for the duration always try to keep the duration more than 20 seconds 25 seconds and hit OK this composition will be used as our main shape for the cloud right-click on the new composition create a new solid whatever the color keep it and now with the ellipse tool draw an ellipse mask inside the composition after that select the layer hit mm on the keyboard to reveal the mask properties and update the mask feather to 90 maybe you have to decrease the mask expansion so you will be far from the border now once our layer is ready right click and we add an effect distort turbine this place I will keep all the setting just I will update the amount 200 the size will be 40 now we have an overall shape of the cloud so we'll animate it for that without pressed on the keyboard I'll click on the stopwatch of the evolution and I will write the following expression time multiplied by 500 [Music] now I will have the shape changing at every frame I'll use this one to generate more than one kind of a cloud later depending on the composition name now I'll right-click on the timeline create a new adjustment layer I'll right-click on the effect control panel how we call the turbulent displace effect again but this time I'll update the setting I'll keep the 50 button the size I'll decrease it to be 40 only but the complexity I will increase it to 10 going back to the project panel I'll right-click create a new composition this time I will rename the composition one I'll use this name after that to be the index to show which ii i will stop on it to get the cloud shape I'll keep the same setting I'll drag and drop my shape composition inside my new composition the first thing to do is to right click on my layer and I will go to time freeze-frame now without pressed on the keyboard I will click on the stopwatch of the time remapping I'll write the following expression this come dot name as you can see here this expression freezes the time at the first second as a reference to the comp name which is one so if we try for example to duplicate the first composition to be the second composition to the freezing we'll be at the second two [Music] going back I will delete this completion for now I will select my shape layer I will add again a turbulent displace exactly but this time our update the setting fifty and here the size will be sixty only but the complexity here be 10 the cloud now is not animated so I have to animate it so the same thing I'll I'll hold alt on the keyboard I'll click on the stopwatch authorize the following expression time multiplied by 50 [Music] and here we have our cloud with an animated effect now I have to enhance a little bit this cloud to get the colors of a cloud doodle that all right click on the layer I'll go to effect noise and grain turbulent noise I'll call the cloudy settings I'll decrease a little bit the scale 400 and I think I have to update the brightness a little bit 30 maybe this now everything is ready I can create my new composition it will be my master composition and I will make it HDTV size 1920 by 1080 okay all right click on the timeline create a new solid will be a blue color for example to cut out sky and I will drag and drop my cloud composition this is my first cloud if i duplicate now my cloud I will drag and drop the second one it will be another cloud with a different shape a third cloud different shape fourth cloud different shape now if I make a preview [Music] you can see here we have four different animated clouds now it's time to move to the beautiful part for that I'll try to simulate flying through the clouds for that I'll duplicate to create like seven units of the clouds and I'll delete all of these I'll drag and drop same clouds again I'll turn those layers 3d and look at this our link every layer to the layer behind select all the layers hit B on the keyboard and before that I will create a new camera so you will see the effect and year 28 with C want to change my navigation I want to change my view and as I said with all the layers selected I'll try to update the Z position and now our land link all the layers change my poo again [Music] howdy reposition the layers one by one [Music] [Music] maybe I have to update camera 50 okay [Music] how to scale to the hairs [Music] I'll try to animate the camera I'll insert keyframes here in the first frame for example after 10 seconds I want to cross to simulate crossing [Music] maybe enough here it end to limit the preview area [Music] that looks nice but we have a problem here that we feel like a jump when the camera is crossing the 2d layer of the cloud to resolve that problem I will start with the first layer to play on the pasady when the camera is approaching the cloud I have to work on the opacity of every layer so to do that I'll open the transform option of any layer so here in our case the first layer the same thing for the camera without pressed on the keyboard I'll write the following expression a equal here it will be the position the z-position of the lair be equal the Z position of the camera [Music] with enter a - Lee here you see here the result the opacity is decreasing when the camera is approaching but the problem is doing that very close to the camera and very fast I have to tweak a little bit my expression after several tries in my case I found that I have to divide the a position by ten the same thing for the B position which is for the camera [Music] these values are depending on the position itself now all I have to do is to copy the opacity your properties and paste it to the other layer control V select all the layer you let's try again [Music] [Music] I think this is everything for this tutorial I hope you enjoyed that and please don't forget to leave any comment if you have any suggestion see you if you like my tutorial don't forget please to subscribe to my channel feel free to leave any command and by the way you can download all the project files from the link in the description

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Id: lQ09XEyIIgc

Length: 13min 15sec (795 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 12 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/rojharris]

Excellent tutorial! I don't think I've learned so much in 13 minutes in my life before! Thanks.

[u/upperstatesman]

I thought this was Eran Stern! I miss that guy's soothing voice but now I can just watch these.