Smoke effect (basic) in After Effects

[TchjoXen]

Thx

[fakhrytatanaki]

thanks!

[Iluv314andkitties]

Thank you!

[johnnyrunt]

nic tut! awesome vid keep it up! for reference you can see real smoke here /watch?v=cYpeZqI-mwU

[Lucasfantasy]

Thank you!

[claire0rockz]

How would you add the smoke at a certain point in the middle? I'm trying to create the effect of a candle blowing out and smoke following- I'm going to first have to figure out how to show the flame die, and then the smoke showing a few seconds in.

[sonicsnout]

@claire0rockz

you can keyframe the opacity levels on your smoke layer, so you can fade it in and out when and how fast you like.

[wolly5678]

Thanks man helped alot 

[wonderboyCraig]

Very nice and quick.

If you change the direction of the smoke to 180 and then change the rotation of the black image layer to 180 your smoke will only rise upwards making it look more realistic.

[rish15]

OK

[landulf88]

Nice tut.....How do you do if you just want the smoke to go upward without the gravity down???

[MegaJoe63]

very helpful man thanks.

[BriamothTV]

@Xx0Mystic0xX Yeah, it's 16. If you go full screen you can see it.

[Tripp393]

awesome! thank you!

[TwistiKristi]

thank you

[alyehab]

thnx :)

[JoNiMa2]

how can u make smoke like in harry potter trailers?

[Gillystudios]

i need to learn how to use it on videos can you plz help?

[davidjjdj]

go to gravity on particle playround and set it to about 50 so the smoke dosnt fall down

[TheWarmLittleCentre]

Thanks mate. helpful stuff. aimple, but effective.

[Trampathon]

cool tutorial

[ingeniatv]

thanks, short and efficient !

[atenadrunarud]

muy buenoooo

[RYANALA87]

youre a life saver

[sssssssshurikkkkkkkk]

thank u, saved me a LOT of work

[waqarwillrocku]

no not 6 u have to put it at 16

[tsunamyboy69]

nice work man, thanks

[jiesheng90]

Thank You! This started me off with more configuration myself...

To other learners: Do try changing the Gravity Force to a lower number to create more realistic effect. The smoke shouldn't look like it's heavy. =D

Cheers.

[hamoortal]

Thanks man your helpful ^^

[besprutad]

Thank you, this was very helpfull. But is it possible to slow down the smoke, if you understand what I mean. The smoke isn't moving in a realistic speed.

[ericwilliam]

thank you so much!

[Defectivefilms]

awesome

[KCJazzKeys]

I just starting messing around with After Effects and this was great. The only thing I could add is drop the "gravity" setting down to keep the smoke from pouring back down. Great vid!

[mcpreacher]

This vid is great! Thx for helping!

[luislylop]

fast and to the point, good tutorial, thanx for teaching us 5 star 4 u

[devilinaround]

this was very helpful!!! THX!

[CrymsonLestrange]

Really helpful, i've got my smoke looking neat! However, I want it to sort of float across the floor in my clip, is there anyway to may it flow sidewards instead of upwards? Thanks :)

[Narutotjuhh]

yes there certainly is; if you have the particle playground effect go to cannon and then to direction, then put th degree up to like 45 if u want it straight forward or whatever u want=)and then u can make a mask and set the wall boundary to Mask so that it stays in one place. Hope i helped

[dgrucci]

Simple, clear and very helpful. Thanks!

[CaptainMazda]

Excellent, thanks mate.

[pengi]

Very nice!

[MADfilmmaker94]

that was pretty sweet. nice work :)