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Rain in After Effects

Introduction to Rain in After Effects

After developing Graphic software people started creating almost all natural things in graphics and it possible to do, most of the film and video production started avoiding shooting in the rain because they had an alternate to create rain in graphics. Creating rain in graphics is a big task but it’s once upon a time now it’s possible and easy too, we can create raindrops in Photoshop but it will be a single frame we can use for banners and graphic posters. If we need to create rain for a video means we need to use software like after effects, in after effects we can create rain effect very easily and effectively.

Methods for Creating Rain Effect

The following tutorial will show how to easily add rain effects in your image with a few steps.

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Method 1 – Applying Drizzle Effect

Step 1: Open a new composition.

Rain in After Effects - New Composition

Step 2: Import a new grey solid layer; select the color and use 4d675 in the fill to get the perfect grey color.

Grey Solid Layer

Grey Solid Layer Setting

Solid Color

Step 3: Import the solid layer to the timeline.

Import the Solid Layer

Step 4: In the effects and presets, we can find CC Drizzle effect.

CC Drizzle Effect

Step 5: Apply CC Drizzle effect to the solid layer.

Apply CC Drizzle Effect

Once we apply the effects we can find some water drop effects on the layer.

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Step 6 : Now move to the configuration window and change the values, Drip rate – 10.0, Longevity (sec) – 1.0, Rippling – 1 x +51, Displacement – 0, Spreading – 75.

Configuration Window

Full Configuration Window

Step 7: We need to expand the light menu now. Change the light intensity to 65, Light type change to point light, Light height 65, Light position 1123, 586.

Expand Light Menu

Expand Light Menu - 1

Step 8: Now let’s expand the shading menu.

Shading Menu

Shading Menu - 1

Step 9: Once we finish this process we need to add some noise to the layer.

Noise to the Layer

Change the noise amount to 4.04.

Change the Noise Amount

Step 10: Now add another solid layer with 121c26 in the color fill.

Solid Layer Color fill

Step 11: Just apply ellipse mask to the new solid layer, ellipse tool is available in the toolbar, long press on rectangle then we will have a drop-down menu from that we can select Ellipse mask.

Ellipse Mask

We can also use Q as a shortcut for this tool.

Step 12: Apply the mask to the new solid layer.

Rain in After Effects - Apply the Mask

Step 13: Now expand the values of the mask. Mask feather – 818.0 pixels, Mask opacity – 100, Mask expansion – (-43).

Rain in After Effects - Values of the Mask

Step 14: Now create another solid layer.

Another Solid Layer

Step 15: Add CC Particles world effect to the new solid layer.

Add CC Particles

Step 16: Now let’s expand the values of CC Particle world. First, disable the Radius in the options, Birth rate  0.8, Longevity 1.

Values of CC Particle

Step 17: Expand the producer menu. Change the radius of XY and Z to 1.5.

Expand Producer Menu

Expand Producer Menu - 1

Once we change the values of XY and Z we can find the rain effect on the screen and we need to make it little effective.

Step 18: Now expand the physics menu. Animation – Direction axis, Velocity – 0.50, Gravity – 0, Extra angel – 0x+280.

Physics Menu

Physics Menu - 1

Once we expand the physics we can feel that the raindrops falling from the top.

Step 19: Now let’s expand the values of particles. Particle type line, Max opacity 100, Birth and death colors will be white.

Rain in After Effects - Values of Particles

By expanding the particles we can change the size and opacity of the raindrops mainly the color of the raindrops.

Step 20: Now expand Extra or camera values, Change FOV to 35.

Rain in After Effects - Camera Values

Step 21: Now add a camera layer.

Rain in After Effects - Camera Layer

Step 22: Go to settings configure window and expand the transform values. Position to 798.0, 873.0, -1040.0.

Rain in After Effects - Transform Values

When we apply the values we can see the raindrop went bit upper.

Step 23: Let’s expand the camera values. Zoom 304.0 pixels, Focus distance 630.0 pixels, Aperture 7.9 pixels, Blur level 100%.

Rain in After Effects - Expand Camera Values

Step 24: Now just render and see the rain falling.

Rain in After Effects - Rain Falling

Method 2 – Changing the Velocity

Step 1: Create a New Project.

Rain in After Effects - New Project

Step 2: Import a new solid layer.

Rain in After Effects - Import Solid Layer

Step 3: Go to effect, simulation and select CC Particle World.

Rain in After Effects - Particles World

Step 4: Disable the grip option.

Rain in After Effects- Disable Grip Option

Step 5: If we start to render we can see that the particles will fly like flairs, now we are going make these particulars as raindrops.

Rendering Image

Step 6: Expand the values of physic. Change the velocity value to 0.

Rain in After Effects - Values of Physics

When we change the velocity to 0, we can find that the flairs in a single line and fall in the same place.

Step 7: Now let’s expand the values of the producer. Change the radius of X to 0.5.

Values of Producer

When we change the value of X radius, we can find that the particles expand the size.

Step 8: Change the Y position to – 0.30.

Change Y Position

When we expand the position of Y-axis the particles will expand to up when we change radius it will expand horizontally, and when we change the position values it will expand vertically when we render it will fall like a rain

Step 9: The particulars look too think and more so we need to make it a little natural. Change the longevity to 1.10, birth rate to 0.3

Change Longevity

Now find the difference after changing the values of birth rate, now it looks like rain somewhat

Step 10: It falling like rain but the color does not like water so, now we need to change the color of the particles. We need to expand the value of the particle. Change the birth color to white and death color to grey

Change Birth Color

Birth color indicate starting color and death color indicates end color when it starts it will start with white and when it dropping down we need to low the color by that we will get a good natural feel. If we render in this position we can get the rain falling effects, before method we saw the rain falling from up to down but in this process, we make to rain in plain

Method 3 – Adding Effects

Step 1: Import a new solid layer, the solid layer needs to be a dark color like black.

Solid Setting

Step 2: Select CC rain from Effects and presets and apply them to the solid layer.

Applying Effects - Solid Layers

Once we apply CC Rain to solid layer automatically it starts raining, it’s too basic method if we need to make it more effective we need to adjust the values of the cc rain particles.

Adjust the Values

Conclusion

Here you learned about creating rain in after effects, we learn Methods for creating rain, the basic method to create rain by adding simple effects, how to create a rain effect, how to create rainfall from up with the help of the camera. Hope we had an interesting topic.

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