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Aerial Clouds

Since creating the Earth Zoom tutorial back July 2007, I have always wanted the clouds to look more realistic. Although the fractal noise was a decent solution, nothing compares to the real thing. Recently on my travels, I was able to capture some images that might just be the solution to a better earth zoom. I actually shot them with the intention of sharing them here.
Obviously I travel by cape.

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73 RESPONSES TO “Aerial Clouds”

wow thats awesome, thanks andreww

It’s intresting that just hours earlier I was saying that I wish I could capture clouds from above.

great the first our four, thanks good for action escential movie two!!!

Thanks Andrew :)

Oh dude, AK, you are the best, I need some hi res cloud images.

Thanks a million

Thanks Alot for these Mr. kramer, working with fractal noise to generate clouds can be some what of a hassle and is almost always slow to render. This will help.

Also… Two posts in one day!…
I feel spoiled
Much Thanks

by Clayton Light

Timely! I’m starting a project tomorrow that needs high res clouds.
Thanks AK.

by Fredrik Davidsson

Thx andrew, this is really usefull :) From Sweden

Awesome!!!

Cool! thanks man!! ur the best!

by Humpty Dumpty

wow i wish you would make blogs like these EVERYDAY lol

by Simon Steele

Thanks for thinking of us Mr. Kramer.

nice!!!

Always thinking of us. Thx AK

You never cease to give, thx!

Also, it might just be because I’m tired, but the clouds kind of look like snow- with the blue of the sky looking like a shadow.
It’s just like that one picture with the old lady and young girl, except this is with clouds and snow…. so yea not at all the same.

thanks :0

Andrew whenever you give us a video to watch you boosts its viewing number way up!

lol

Hail Andrew the Almighty Promoter!

Dan Allen

Lois was kinda bitchy in the ’80s.

thanks dude

WORD !

Thanks, Andrew!

Nice AK.
just wonder, how did you take these shots?

THANK!!!! AK

thank you andrew

Thanks a lot Mr.Kramer. Very useful

Thanks!

Awesome stuff!

Like it very much! Thanks!
Greetings from The Netherlands.

thanks kramer for good stuff

THANKS!

I always knew you had super powers! But didn’t you see PIXAR Incredibles? No Capes!

OK, I’ll be the dunce–how exactly do we use this?

Andrew, don`t waste your time on stuff like that, focus on AcEs2! ;)
All the other things have time.

Well, actually….
I cannot deal with this 93% thingy…
I am realy disapointed…

i indeed love men with capes :D

Thanks Andrew for this and of course for everything you do.

And BTW whatever happened to Andrews Sandals? I guess we will never know…

And I don’t know if this is aloud, but if you got time folks, check out my newest AE animation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0XujFVpQAA

Thank you andrew, but they’re not really necessary for me since every day I travel to work by cape and made pictures too :) .
Just joking, thank you!

Many thanks, for that Andrew, found a cool site called CG textures but these are really good for a project that I am doing,

Once again thanks

Rich

Thanx! But can you stop jerking me around and release the NEW ACTION!!!!!!!!RSRSRSRS

Wow! Thanks Andrew! You’re always thinking about old projects and how to improve them even though you don’t have to! :)

Way to go!

Thanks Andrew….I knew you had a cape hidden somewhere in your office.

Hey thanks this relly helps

Cool ! :)
When we can except AME2 ? You’ve said that will come out in june :)

very nice pictures :)

Are those taken from an airplane?

Please turn off all electronic devices. You must not listen, AK.

I agree with Eric!!! lol

… only during takeoff and landing.

hey you guys…i believe that Mr. Kramer is God… just my thoughts thank you so much sir

funny, i took the plane last week and filmed lots of stuff too, thinking on the Earth Zoom…lol

by Speedbreaker

Just a little side note. Last time I was traveling I asked the stewardess if I can leave my gps on. She said she has to ask the pilot. After she came back and said that the pilot asked what a gps is and why I want to use it in the plane, I got a little concerned. :)

the cool thing is, when you travel by cape you can use all electronic devices like you want!

Great pics btw I’m sure I can use them!

Thank you.

Thanks!

Speedbreaker: lol

Did you used a w150?

Thanks! :)

Thanks a ton man!

SWEEEEEEET!!!!! I tried to get some nice aerial shots on my last flight to phoenix but of course i had a wing seat :( Can’t wait for AE2. BTW AK I have used some of your techniques to creat some interesting designs and a local production house stole them. They won’t hire me but they’ll steal crap. GRRRRRRR

You know how to stick people on your website!!!!
very good! you are so activ! of course thats your job, but you do it very good! :)

How many views did the video have before you posted it Andrew?

That superman idea musta taken a while to think of…

… I bet you used Westjet.

by Matthew Park

Who-ho! Nice dude!

jaja u should tech us to use the red cap as well :P nice pic thnx

Free Stuffs, thats something VCP is all about.

thnx Andrew :)

check out the use of andrews clouds ,i used my action figuer in photoshop .very usefull clouds. thanks champ.

Cirrus-ly awesome! That was one of my favorite tutorials.

hey andrew, new movie coming out called sector 9, it was in the previews for transformers 2, they used your twitch product and also some sound effects from your designer sound fx

I bet he’s stalling for the AME2 release :P

@Eric, in the very first trailer that aired in the superbowl, it looked like twitch was used there.

Word up homie, holdin it down for the World VFX Crew… well quote unquote. Your work is always awesome and i appreciate all the hard work you guys do for us down @ video copilot. Thx a big one Drew.

by sunil thapa

3 words……… best….. awesome……….healthy………..

yeah highdefw, and if you listen carefully you can hear the same exact sounds found on andrews’ DSFX

a question by the way, is there a point 5 in the license agreement.
Nice shots btw

greez
skully

so whats you superhero name andrew? The Amazing Kramer?

by Harry Smith

Thanks Andrew!

Thanks Andrew
In arabic

Shokran = شكرا

Awesome stuff!

I like it!

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