After Effects: Waterbending Tutorial Part 1

This is a tutorial that shows you how to create the effect that you're controlling water with After Effects and Blender. Simple to do, but kind of time consuming.

The next part will be up either about an hour after this one or sometime between now and monday.

NORMALITY DOWNLOAD LINK:
http://www.minning.de/software/normality]

Normal Material .blend File:
http://www.shadowndacorner.com/downloads/normalmap_twisty.blend

NOTE ON THE .BLEND: The .blend file in the description is different from the file used in the tutorial. Just open up a new render layer and use the hotkeys to render (Ctrl-F12 for whole animation; F12 for still frame) and make a material with the alpha at 0 and use it on the UV sphere.


Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfNwwOP0TjU

EDIT: It's much easier to just use the append/ link function in Blender to grab the material from the a.blend file and use it in another .blend. How to do it:
1. In Blender, make (or open) a .blend file you want to use a normal map in.
2. In the File drop-down, click Append/ Link
3. Open the normalmap_material.blend in the window that popped up.
4. Click materials
5. Click Normal_Map

You're done.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• After
• Effects
• Blender
• Full
• Tutorial
• Awesome
• Waterbending

[vexxez]

the links in description is broken. can you please provide new ones if possible?

[TheFXGuy]

@vexxez Sorry, but that blend seems to have disappeared. I'll put up my copy as soon as I have access to it.

[vexxez]

@TheFXGuy thanks a million man. you are the best :)

[TheFXGuy]

@vexxez Updated description, btw

[unikati101]

@TheFXGuy did you do it?

[TheFXGuy]

@unikati101 Sry, totally forgot. Give me 20 minutes.

[TheFXGuy]

@unikati101 Description updated.

[unikati101]

@TheFXGuy thx!!! :D

[leonxshooter20]

can we do it with sony vegas?