Can I create smoke effect in After Effects?

[misswho]

Pls Help....I need to create smoke effects wat programme to use and even better if After Effects is able to do it!

 

[PsiPhi]

If you have the ProBundle version of AE, you can use the Particle generator to emit lots of small white particles. Adding a Gaussian blur on top of these gives quite a convincing smoke simulation.

PsiPhi

 

[EdwardMartinIII]

I guess it depends on what you want to do with your smoke.

If you want smoke from a smoky torch, that's one thing, if you want smoke as in firefighters-struggling-to-find-each-other-in-the-smoke, that's a different thing.

For the latter, you might look at the cheat I used in
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"3d fog after effects"

I sometimes achieve good results using a blur on a particle playground, but not always. Smoke is like fire -- it either looks good or it looks bad.

Cheers,


Edward

"Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door

 

[pro2cer604]

check out total training AE 5.5 tutorial (its a demo free)
they have a smoke creating technique with audio wave