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Render Water

Render Water - After Effects Tutorial

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Render Water

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- [Eran] Welcome to After Effects weekly. I'm Eran Stern and today we continue to explore this placement effect in After Effects. Specifically we are going to take a look at the caustics effect which will help you to render water. Now caustics is the envelope of light rays reflected or refracted by a curved surface or an object. Imagine that you are standing on top of a swimming pool looking down at the water. You're probably going to see the bottom of the pool and maybe also some of the reflection from the sky but you will definitely notice the folding of light as it hits the water surface. And this is what this effect is all about. In my opinion this is one of the best displacement tools in the entire application. And it's also quite easy to use. Let me show you a couple of examples. So we are starting over here with this composition where I have my own logo with a couple of supporting elements such as the background and these lines. Alright, I'm going to pull us the playback and I…

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