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by Jamil Yamani on Feb 13, 2009 at 2:15:00 am

hi all

i am trying to create a water fountain effect within AE does anyone know where i might find a good tutorial on this..using trapcode particular i guess?/

any advice would be great

jamil

The Electric Canvas
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Sydney, Australia

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Re: water fountain
by david bogie on Feb 13, 2009 at 3:20:45 pm

Too many possibilities for interpreting the term WATER FOUNTAIN.
A drinking fountain? Or something more, umm, architecutral?

http://www.fountainsinthecity.com/visit/famous_fountains.html

After Effects is not a very good fluid simulation package, even with a bunch of expensive plugins. But Foam, Particle World, Caustics, and WaveWorld, along with some fractal movies, can create excellent water simulations.

The Trapcode lobbyists will chime in soon, give them a few hours to organize some suggestions and links for you.

bogiesan

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Re: water fountain
by Viacheslav Sasykin on Feb 13, 2009 at 6:00:42 pm

And also CC Mr. Mercury (may be the most appropriate plugin in this situation).
To get general impression how to use this plugin watch Andrew Cramer’s tutorial Water Drops
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/water_drops/
Also you may want take a look at Harry J. Frank set of projects ”Best of Particular #1” on his Downloads page. There is a one among them called Fizzy. It does not look quite like fountain, more like boiling water but after some tweaking you may get something similar. Note how he used water drop created with Foam as custom particle.
And also may be Fractal Noise. And also if you have access to ParticleIllusion, check its emitters, I’m not sure but I think I saw something in there.

not a Trapcode lobbyist
:-)

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Re: water fountain
by Jamil Yamani on Feb 16, 2009 at 3:40:17 am

Hi and thanks for responding to my post, it was all very useful information.

thanks again
jamil

The Electric Canvas
Large Format Projection Specialists
Sydney, Australia

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