3D Water - After Effects Tutorial (No Plugins!)

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This tutorial shows how to create realistic 3D water animations in Adobe After Effects, without the use of third-party plug-ins. Follow along to make a realistic ocean flyover, and then adjust the settings to customize your water animation as needed. This is a 3D effect, so you'll be able to move or animate your camera to orbit the waves, or move over them. Anyone can make this water effect, no experience necessary!
If you need 3D water scenes with more customization options, you can check out these popular After Effects templates from Creation Effects:
"Ocean" - Create realistic 3D bodies of water, made from real water footage. Ocean allows you to create custom, 3D bodies of water in Adobe After Effects. Choose from over 60 video water textures (or use your own), and convert them into oceans, lakes, ponds, rivers, and pools. Insert your titles, logo, or other 3D elements into your scene, and customize the water with convenient controls.
www.creationeffects.com/ocean
"Landscaper" - Create epic 3D landscapes with lakes, beaches, and rivers
www.creationeffects.com/lands...
"Pixel Pusher" - Using the techniques explained in this video, customize a wide variety of water, land, and abstract particle animations.
www.creationeffects.com/pixel...
0:00 Intro & Alternative Water FX
3:14 Creating the Texture
5:33 CC Ball Action
8:56 Cropping the Layer
9:46 Camera Position / Layer Scale
11:57 Expression Controls
15:39 Fade Out & Background
17:13 DOF Blurring
19:00 Increasing Quality
21:54 More Cool FX

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@program_man 6 ай бұрын

Love this tutorial. Then it took me 40 hours to render, but still looked lovely.

@sunsetpark_fpv 3 ай бұрын

Wow this looks absolutely beautiful! So many possibilities with this technique.

@rickdellis_ 4 ай бұрын

I love this! Really creative use for CC Ball Action

@euMMagic Жыл бұрын

Simply Brilliant!!!!

@abhijeethalder5305 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much sir I have goosebumps salute sir❤❤❤.

@richochet 9 ай бұрын

Thank you and well done 👏🏻👏🏻

@sheikhzal-dinani496 8 ай бұрын

A great one. Much appreciated.

@might3d Жыл бұрын

you are such a creative man

@hermannrudas 5 ай бұрын

Cool tutorial ! . Vielen Dank für Ihre Hilfe

@marans22 8 ай бұрын

Really amazing thank you

@abduallahtaher3556 6 ай бұрын

you are amazing 👏👏👏

@tbuckyfilms 22 күн бұрын

I love this tutorial by Joe Pera!

@moktadirjafran Ай бұрын

Just loved

@rougebasic 11 ай бұрын

This was one of the most surprising effects and it did solve my waves issue, so big thank you!

@hobiciok Ай бұрын

amazing tutorial

@doctorhani 2 ай бұрын

You are truly genius

@doctorhani 2 ай бұрын

Amazing

@kustomkool Жыл бұрын

Wow!

@tyamahrimoore3220 9 ай бұрын

Wow

@testinghope8584 Жыл бұрын

super........

@albertoarteche7901 5 ай бұрын

Confirmed, it doesnt work with 2024 version of After Effects. I had to go back to the 2023 version to succed. Anyway, thanks for the tutorial. Great Job! ;)

@creationeffects 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I just had a look in v.2024, and it appears that the "Twist Angle" property is not as sensitive as it used to be. You have to turn it up about 10 full revolutions to see the waves.

@albertoarteche7901 5 ай бұрын

@@creationeffects , Awesome!! I finally did it in vrs ´23, but I´ll take it in consideration for future compositions. TYVM for tutorial and tips! ;)

@gwagwa5964 9 ай бұрын

Big thanks your tutorial 🥰 May I ask if I wanna let the water more light and glow ( make the top wave clear and stand up! ) what effect can I add? thank you!

@creationeffects 9 ай бұрын

The tricky thing is if you adjust the texture to make the ridges brighter, it will affect the shape of the water. I think your best chance is to add a Glow effect to the finished water effect. Use a low Radius, and lower the Threshold until just the ridges are bright. I haven't tried this, so I can't guarantee it'll work.

@Ashutosh-st6zs 11 ай бұрын

💯🔥🔥🔥

@Ericrud96 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing this. How would you go about to animating waves from an illustration of waves?

@creationeffects 10 ай бұрын

Depends on the illustration, but I would probably break it up into multiple single waves, spread them out in 3D space, and give them random motion and perhaps warping.

@bradfab_fx Жыл бұрын

I have a question. It seem almost every tutorial I watch talk about the pc getting slow when resolution is up, does it mean we need a super computer to be able to have things run as it should at full rez? What is the maximum specs to freely use Ae without it slowing down. Ps. Great tutorial 👍

@creationeffects Жыл бұрын

Well, nobody - even those with super fast computers - can preview an animation like this in real-time in After Effects, until they let it render first (i.e, let it cache the frames). But the time it takes to render varies greatly, depending on the computer. I wouldn't worry about it, even an old computer can do this - it'll just take longer to render, and longer to preview.

@Tariqaziz Жыл бұрын

This is really an amazing work.... I salute you Sir.... Can we make anything float on this water alongwith waves as physics....??? If so, please teach me. I'll be very thankful to you again Sir.....

@creationeffects Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Tariq. No, you can't really have anything interact with the water. If you want something floating in the water, you'd have to have two water layers - one in front of your floating object (foreground), and one behind it (background).

@Tariqaziz Жыл бұрын

@@creationeffects Thanks once more time Sir, I thankful to you that you reply me... I think, in this way, we will animate floating object between these 2 layers manually...?

@yetzchaqeaton6888 6 ай бұрын

7:36😮😮😮

@MaximumMadnessStixon 8 ай бұрын

18:26 ... Ok, so I got my copy of After Effects as part of a school program, but for the life of me, I cannot find any function for "Effects & Masks" on anything. Does anyone know what's going on with that? (Or should I just assume that the copy I was given is broken in some way?)

@magor-dx6uq 11 ай бұрын

when i put the expression adobe say "there is a problem" or something like that i don't know why, could you help me pls?

@andrewgray1169 8 ай бұрын

This tutorial provides the perfect solution to what I need to create, so thank you for such a detailed tutorial. However, I must be doing something wrong from the outset as when I apply the CC Ball Action to the Watetry (🙂) layer and set the Twist property to 'Brightness' the Solid remains flat and the whole layer rotates as a flat shape when I adjust the 'Twist Angle' the adjustment to this angle does not behave the same way as it does in your tutorial, do you have any idea with what I am doing wrong? Any additional guidance would be gratefully received.

@creationeffects 8 ай бұрын

Hi Andrew. Do you have a Turbulent Noise effect before the CC Ball Action effect, and is your "Twist Property" set to "Brightness"?

@andrewgray1169 8 ай бұрын

Hi there, yes to both. I have the Turbulent Noise effect placed before the CC Ball Action and the Twist Property is set to Brightness. However, when I adjust the Twist Angle on this property it behaves like I am adjusting the Rotation? @@creationeffects

@creationeffects 8 ай бұрын

This could also be an issue of low contrast in your Turbulent Noise texture. The layer will rotate regardless of the texture - that is normal. But if different areas are not protruding when it rotates, try increasing the "Contrast" on the Turbulent Noise. @@andrewgray1169

@andrewgray1169 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for looking into this for me, it is very much appreciated. I am however not having much luck, I have followed (or so I thought) your tutorial by putting in the same values for each of the within each effect and it does not behave in the same way at all, even when I increase the 'Contrast' on the 'Turbulent Noise'. When I adjust the Twist Angle the solid just rotates as a flat plane - it must be something that I have missed along the way. I will start over from the top and see if I pick anything up along the way?@@creationeffects

@wintertondesign7603 Жыл бұрын

Is there a way you can add a image overlay to the cc ball action as well as keeping the turbulent noise?

@creationeffects Жыл бұрын

Not really. The closest thing to that would be to add a texture, and add a Displacement Map effect, with the CC Ball Action layer as its map.

@wintertondesign7603 Жыл бұрын

@@creationeffects Thank you for your response ! Also if your were to create a water line to show it splashing up against a screen/ lens for example. How could i go about that?

@creationeffects Жыл бұрын

@@wintertondesign7603 I suppose what I would try is move the camera down so that it's more level with the water, and far enough back to show the front edge of the water layer. Then put a 2D water texture layer (maybe some underwater footage?), below the CC Ball Action layer. You would need to crop off any of the texture that's above the horizon line. Whether this approach works might depend on the angle that you're viewing the water at. If you're completely level with the water, you might need to put the texture layer above the water layer, and animate a mask to crop out everything above the water line.

@wintertondesign7603 Жыл бұрын

@@creationeffects Sorry to bother you, I just have one more question. With the expression of effect("Evolution Speed ")(1) I would like to make the waves loop and not sure how i will be able to do this?

@creationeffects Жыл бұрын

@@wintertondesign7603 Turbulent Noise doesn't have a loop feature, but you can swap it out with a Fractal Noise effect, and just copy all the existing expressions over. Then you can use the "Cycle Evolution" option in the Fractal Noise effect. Or, you can keep the turbulent noise effect and just loop the clip by fading the beginning into the ending. I show how to do it here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q69loMWJ09veoWg.html

@user-lf3gu3kv4l 7 ай бұрын

My waves arent moving and dynamic like yours. Is there an effect im missing? Also, by waves are not restarting automatically.

@creationeffects 7 ай бұрын

Is your texture moving, without the CC Ball Action effect? Make sure you have animated the "Evolution" property of the Turbulent Noise.

@_ace_977 2 ай бұрын

Hi not sure if you'll see this comment but is there a way to have the camera view from above to look down on the water? And then to animate it down to come down to the view that it ends up in like in this video?

@creationeffects 2 ай бұрын

Yes, I don't see any reason why that wouldn't work.

@lEconomiaSpiegataFacile 2 ай бұрын

AE 2021 tells me that the script contains an error...

@alkenator9000 5 ай бұрын

everything wotked but the camera

@MartinAlejandroLiguori 7 ай бұрын

when setting to brightness and modifying the twisting angle, nothing happens... i get no waves. I have the last version of AE, registered.

@MartinAlejandroLiguori 7 ай бұрын

I tried this again in a new project with all the same settings as you and the waves are not been created when modifying the twist angle in brightness mode. It just stays flat.

@creationeffects 7 ай бұрын

Hi Martin. I just did a test in AE 2024, and it does appear that the effect works a little differently now. From what I can tell, the Twist Angle control is just not as sensitive as it used to be. It still works the same way, but you may need to turn it way up - maybe 6 full revolutions - and then you should start to see the waves. @@MartinAlejandroLiguori

@theuptaker 4 ай бұрын

nope doesnt work @@creationeffects