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Inspiring
January 14, 2023
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Please Help! Smoke bomb effect in AE

  • January 14, 2023
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Please Help! I could really use some help if someone knows how to create smoke bomb effect in AE like this one. I'm using AE 2022 on Mac. 

 

Thank you so much!

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Correct answer ShiveringCactus

Agree with the others that this is particle simulation.  And as Mylenium says it is possible with layers and effects.  Here's a starter that needs plenty of refinement, but should get you started:

 

Andrew Kramer did a pretty thorough tutorial on this as well:

https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/shockwaves/

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r5dsignAuthor
Inspiring
April 15, 2023

Thanks to everybody on this question. I wil try ShiveringCactus suggestion per link provided.

ShiveringCactus
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ShiveringCactusCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
January 15, 2023

Agree with the others that this is particle simulation.  And as Mylenium says it is possible with layers and effects.  Here's a starter that needs plenty of refinement, but should get you started:

 

Andrew Kramer did a pretty thorough tutorial on this as well:

https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/shockwaves/

Mylenium
Legend
January 14, 2023

That's pretty clearly a fluid simulation in a 3D program, but lucky enough it's super simple and thus easy enough to create something similar in AE. The real trick is to animate layers and layers of circles and Roughen them up with effects like Turbulent Displace, Roughen Edges and others while animating their radius/ scale and opacity. The basic ingredients are really simply, though it will take time to tweak the parameters for each of the individual effects at any given time.

 

Mylenium 

Jose Panadero
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Community Expert
January 14, 2023

Not sure you can achieve this effect with the native effects included in After Effects. You can try Trapcode Particular or Superluminal Stardust (particle effects) to create something in that way.