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Welcome back to an After Effects tutorial. Today I will show you how to prepare a graphic bed for an opener or just as a background for your portfolio or similar work.
I'm now working since a few weeks on my new portfolio, and I was searching for a way on how to make my background a bit more attractive, so I thought of recording some cigarette smoke. Me and my friends started to smoke like hell in front of a black wall so I could use it for my background. I've included a small part of the movie for you to play around.
You can download the footage HERE
First of all, let's start with a new composition, I've used 320x240 for the size and a comp length of 10 seconds, name this composition "Curtain".
Then create a new Solid by right-clicking the timeline and selecting New -> Solid or by pressing the keyboard shortcut CTRL+Y, make it the same size as the composition and press ok.
Now you need to assign the Fractal Noise effect to your newly created Solid, this can be found under the menu Effect - Noise & Grain - Fractal Noise.You can also select your solid on the timeline, press the F3 key and rightclick on the new window to assign an effect.
At this state you should see this:
This is just the basic fractal noise effect, this is not quite what we're searching for, so let's change the settings a little bit.
I'm now working since a few weeks on my new portfolio, and I was searching for a way on how to make my background a bit more attractive, so I thought of recording some cigarette smoke. Me and my friends started to smoke like hell in front of a black wall so I could use it for my background. I've included a small part of the movie for you to play around.
You can download the footage HERE
First of all, let's start with a new composition, I've used 320x240 for the size and a comp length of 10 seconds, name this composition "Curtain".
Then create a new Solid by right-clicking the timeline and selecting New -> Solid or by pressing the keyboard shortcut CTRL+Y, make it the same size as the composition and press ok.
Now you need to assign the Fractal Noise effect to your newly created Solid, this can be found under the menu Effect - Noise & Grain - Fractal Noise.You can also select your solid on the timeline, press the F3 key and rightclick on the new window to assign an effect.
At this state you should see this:
This is just the basic fractal noise effect, this is not quite what we're searching for, so let's change the settings a little bit.
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