I have only dealt with the changes, that differ from the standard settings:įirst keyframe right at the beginning of the timeline: 0x+0,0° However, you can also have free room to play around, as the customisation is dependent on the image. In the following I will give some recommendations for the settings. Now it’s time to adjust the effect using the operating panel “Effect Controls”, which has opened automatically. This is how you create the composition with the correct settings, import the pictures imported and apply the effect. We search here for the effect “Turbulent Displace” and apply it by dragging it onto our layer to be animated. To do this we open the “Effects & Presets”, which can be activated by the menu item “Window”. In comparison to the Atmospheric Particle Animation we do not need to create any new layers, because the effect is applied directly onto the image. We next drag this layer into our composition window next to the timeline. This can be done by clicking twice in the window “Project”, and selecting our file. Subsequently we import our photo containing the water that we would like to animate. I have decided here to create a 4 second video. Exactly like in the first part of the editing tutorials, we begin with creating a composition in Full HD (1920×1080 Pixels) with a frame rate of 29,97 fps and set the length of the composition. We begin with the creation of our realistic water animation. These will each produce the same trick, only with the difference that the option “smooth” produces smoother warps, that may take Adobe more time to render, as Adobe explains here. Next to “Turbulent”, “Bulge” and “Twist” Adobe AE offers amongst others the options “Turbulent (smoother)”, “Bulge (smoother)” and “Twist (smoother)”. This is what the “Turbulent Displace” effect looks like, when one uses a raster graphic and adjusts the settings as mentioned. Our animations have one rotation of “Evolution”, over 6 seconds, as well as the activated “Cycle Evolution” (more on this under “Adjustment of the Effect”): You can download the graphic here for test purposes: Raster Graphic Download. In order to make it all a bit more tangible, we have created a graphic with a simple grid on which we have applied the effect with different settings. This effect combines two other effects into one: “Fractal Noise” and “Displacement Map”. With the effect “Turbulent Displace”, you can create patterns or distortions that serve as the basis for movement in an image by moving pixels according to this distortion. Should you look for more complex solutions, After Effects also offers, for example, the “Wave World” Effect. I decided on the “Turbulent Displace” as an effect which can achieve fast and effective results with the imitation of waves. In this second tutorial about photo animation in Adobe After Effects I will give some tips on how to use the “Turbulent Displace” effect to animate water and bring your image to life.Īs always, the described path is one of many possibilities. In the first part of this series I have already shown you how to use an atmospheric particle effect on your photos.
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