The Best 2D Smoke in After Effects - Animation Tutorial
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.ย. 2024
- A 2D animation tutorial on how to create the most perfect looping smoke effect using Adobe After Effects. This tutorial is suitable for beginners - intermediate users. Please leave a comment if you'd like me to explain anything I skimmed over.
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Quality content, ladies and gentlemen!
Haha, thanks so much. I really appreciate at the support and encouragement. :D
@@BenMarriott can you make a video on how to do some transitions like kurzgesagt ? It would be really helpful. Pls 🥺👉🏼👈🏼
Instablaster...
I definitely expected Turbulent Displace but blur + levels is a really clever and more effective way to achieve that. Great stuff as always
if you press "alt+s" you directly generate key frame in scale, same for" alt+p", "alt+r" and so on...
great tutorial as usual, Thanks Ben!
Ooooo, that's an awesome suggestion. I'll be using that in the future for sure :D
@@BenMarriott be aware, I believe this only works on macs
Its "alt + shift + s" for scale on Windows... same for the others, need add the "shift key"
Thank you.
'Smoke armpit'... of of those things you never knew you needed... Thank you!
It's just amazing what i have learned in the past two month from you *-* i can't thank you enough for your tutorials and your other content!
Thank you so much for watching, I'm really happy I could help in a small way :)
Love the Vegas "hack" for a stroke but you can also attain the same result by adding a "Layer Style > Stroke"
Your teaching skills are absolutely flawless. Perfect videos!
thank you so much :D That's so awesome of you to say
My Levels don't seem to change anything in the blurried layer
To apply a stroke to shapes like this, I always prefer to use Stylize>Roughen Edges with the 'Roughen Color' option. You can change the thickness of the stroke by tweaking the 'Border' and 'Edge Sharpness' values.
This method also has an added benefit of softening/distorting the shape even more depending on the 'Scale' value of the roughen. Set the 'Scale' really low, like 10, to diffuse-granularize the edges; or set it really high, like 500, for a softer turbulence. You can set the 'Fractal Influence' parameter to 0 if you don't want any distortion at all and just keep the stroke.
Roughen Edges is one of my most-used secret-weapon effects, it's pretty powerful once you get the hang of it.
Saw this on Instagram yesterday and was really excited for it!
Hope it lived up to the hype! Thanks so much for all the support
Using Vegas to put a stroke on a layer using its alpha is a really good trick. Ive never been able to find a good way of doing this. Cheers.
i think you've just dethroned ECA as the best Motion design channel out there. Congrats !
I wasn't completely happy with Vegas. I tried "Find Edges" and then "Linear Key Color" to achieve the same result. I got back to Vegas in the end but both technique have their own ups and downs. I thought it was worth mentioning.
Thank for this great tutorial Ben, I am always amazed by what you share with us
This was the most effective and simple way to create smoke. Huge thanks!
ive been looking forward to this after seeing it on your insta!
Thank you! Hope it lived up to the hype
Ben Marriott it sure did! (I use what I learned from your grain and texture tutorial on every video I now make on my main channel btw so thanks so much haha)
Ooh so flowy and organic! That levels trick was suuuper clever
Thanks so much man! Blaze it :)
Ben I really can't get enough of your tutorials. Excellent stuff.
Glad you like them! Thanks for watching man :)
not even really sure why but I enjoyed seeing you build the effect next to the finished comp, thanks for this one!
Thanks so much, I though I might lose some people at the start because it looks so crap before you add the blur and levels, haha
I think someone was watching their device upside down or something and clicked the wrong thumb icon. Great stuff as always Ben!
Haha, Thanks mate!
Very cool tutorial. I always love to see artists bringing recreating the old animation techniques with CG.
3:56 woooooowwwww (mouth from right to left)
I'd never thought of using alpha channel and gaussian blur together!!! Brilliant!
9:42 I just learnt from other tutorials that pressing 0 is better than pressing space because it loads before playing instead of playing while loading.
I practiced this project for 4 times and I picked up something different in your example and my project. Really learnt a lot, thx!
I’m so happy I found your TH-cam account
Thank you! :D I really appreciate you watching the videos :)
Beautiful Tutorial 👏 hope we can see more of these type of amazing tutorials !
Thanks so much :D This is one that I'm most proud of. I've got some exciting ones coming too. Hope you enjoy them.
If you want to go through the pain of keeping them all in one shape layer, you can use a merge paths with a path offset that expands the shape and then another with the exact opposite to contract it back. If you get it set up correctly, it'll blob it together and you'll still have it as vectors. Of course then you'd have to do any turbulent displacement, etc. after.
Oooooo, such an awesome suggestion. Thanks so much :D
I hope you know you were my biggest influence for this channel :)
Ben Marriott thanks man! Congrats on the success!
After spending years working in all the Adobe programs nothing is quite as creative and fun as after effects.
Exactly what I needed: A smoke loop animation. Thank you!
Man, the vegas trick is gonna change my life forever.
You can also just add "Layer Style>Stroke" and have the same result in one step... but like cobra commander likes to say, "Not knowing is the other half of the battle!"
Thank you for valueable tutorial
Your tutorials are some of the best I've found on After Effects. Short, sweet, to the point, and easy for a beginner (like me) to follow. Idk what I will use this in just yet but I'm sure I will be using it!
Thank you so much, Jakub :)
Just wanted to let you know I really enjoy your videos.
Thanks so much! I really appreciate the encouragement :D
Thank you so much! Amazing work, I have no idea how all these combinations come to your mind, but please don’t stop!
That is the coolest bat butt I have ever seen.
Oh I like this. Could be a fun lava lamp effect
Oh that's such an awesome idea, I wish'd I'd thought of that.
That was one of the best smoke tutorials i found, thanks!
you saved my life. I was struggling with hand-made animation and now I can do it with good results and easily! Thank you so much!
Well delivered. Again.
Thanks so much!
you are a literal gift from god.
Suuuuuuper cooooool
Thank you! You're quite super cool yourself :)
This video has been a HUGE help to me! Thank you! I am also wondering how exactly did the blurred vision effect. I feel like I missed something in there, but I can't seem to figure out what you did to achieve it.
Awesome! Thank you Ben!!
Thank you! You're awesome for watching :D
2 words, LOVE IT!
:O Thank you! :D So glad you enjoyed it
You should do more SparkAR tutorials:I need that AR knoweledge, boyyy!
Love your vids, keep it up Ben!
I don’t animate but I find it fascinating to see how this stuff is made
Nicely done as always!
Thanks so much! that's so awesome of you to say :D
Amazing content as always! The gaussian blur trick made my day 😁 Well done!
Thanks a bunch! :)
I can't wait to try this out and avoid my school-animations by doing me-animations!
Been craving for this ever since I saw it on Insta!
Amazing! Hope it lived up to the hype :D
Love your tutorials, please keep doing them!!!
Hell yeah, I’ve been curious how to do something like this since I first saw it on your story, it’s really cute and satisfying ^o^
Thanks so much :D So glad it lived up to the hype :)
this vegas effect trick amazed me, thank you a lot!
das goot!
Thank youuu! :D
Haha "smoke armpit". I like the jargon on this channel.
Hi Ben, this is so clever! Thank you for showing us!
Thanks so much! So glad you found it useful
You're awesome Ben! Thank you so much for share your great work
You're awesome for commenting. Thanks so much
This is such an amazing tip! Thank you Ben!!
Man love your quick AE lessons, great stuff!
I AM from Colombia men, thanks for share this :3
Thanks man! I really appreciate it. Glad you find it useful :)
This is very good! I've used roughen edges in the past after the blur but the levels on the alpha technique seems more clean and intuitive! Also, I'm eager to try a procedural crack at this using particles or some noise. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much! Roughen edges is a great alternative, you could use it to add some texture to the line as well. :)
Works great for me, thanks!
Awesome!
Thanks so much mate!
Thanks for the awesome smoke tut. I'm just getting into AE and your channel has been so inspiring 😁
Thanks so much! That's amazing to read. So glad you've enjoyed it.
extremely cool Ben!
I want da smoke
Blaze it! :)
Awesome stuff Ben. When they do start a motion design hall of fame, you're definitely going to be inducted! :P
That's so nice, thank you sooo much!! :)
Just WOOOW!!!!
This.Is.Beautiful!!
Great!
Thanks so much, so glad you enjoyed it
Great job, Ben!
Thanks so much!
can u do a 2d fire next? I've always wanted to know how to make it.
lovely lesson, thanks
Awesome¡¡
You're amazing for watching! (And commenting)
Awesome tutorial! I’d love to see this tutorial again but with smoke that doesn’t crop off screen! I’ve been trying to find a solution for that that still feels organic.
Thanks so much! Yeah that's a whole other challenge. If I find a solution I'll be sure to post it.
Loving your tuts, keep up the good work!
Thank you so much!
Awesome tutorial! I've learnt some new tricks=) Thank you!
that's really well done! 😸
UR A GENIUS BABE!
Amazing!
How are you so generous?? What is your motivation for doing all this? Superb video and you even share a free project file. Why????
Coool tricks!! Thank you for sharing to us :DD
That effect would be great for 2D oil animation like if you are animating something cooking in a pot or an broken ship on the ocean
The one theme I've seen emerge after watching many of your videos is to put in the time and don't depend on the "pre-packaged" approach. No pain no grain amirite?
Haha, No pain No Grain is my mantra. :D You've nailed it
Ma men! 🔥🔥🔥
Good stuff, man. Thank you!
You're awesome Ben. Love u
This is great! thank you!
Thanks so much for watching!
I am an absolute beginner in AE and I understood everything perfectly until 2:52 after that I got confused. How do I apply the Gaussian Blur to all the objects? Does he exports the rough animation and then place it again in another composition and applying all the effects to it? But the tutorial still rocks!
I don't understand too((
Now this is epic
Thanks man!
Hey man, just stumbled upon your youtube. For a beginner animator, this is really amazing content. Just wanted to say that and: Keep it up!
Great! Thanks for the tutorial!
Outstanding thanks for sharing tricks
So cool and clean! Thank you!
subscribed! thank you for the useful tip!
YOU'RE A FUCKING GENIUS!!!! OMG
Glad I stuck till the end. I was really happy to find out about hacking vegas effect for stroke fx (rather than layer style).
However, what's better about blur+alpha crunch with levels than just roughen edges?
Thanks so much for sticking through :D Roughen edges is good alternative too :)
Thanks you I love that 😍👏🏾
Hello dear Ben! Thanks for amazing tut! I have a situation here with my project! I have an occupied bucket with 4 hatches. A cube with four rectangular openings used for dumping waste. What I want to do is that the gas emitted from the garbage exits exactly through these four vents. I need your guidance.
nice tutorial Bro.... thanks.
I liked this as soon as I heardsaw "WE ALWAYS LABEL OUR LAYERS•"
You are so cool
This is awesome!
So smart.
this is awsome.
Thanks so much! You're awesome for commenting :)