Reflecting on the Past

A long time ago, I made a tutorial on simulating reflections over a watery surface which I had to revisit recently. I cleaned the project up a bit and now you can use it as a template with your own video. Play around with the displacement map and you can get some interesting results.

Download Project (CS3)

POSTED:
16 years ago
51 Comments
wahyu
14 years ago
Cak Andrew animasine apik pye carane...
stephen ghartey
14 years ago
i like you man for your good works
aftereffectsman
16 years ago
great one dude!!! love it!!!
16 years ago
This is just in time for me! I'm doing a nature project, and have been playing around with your easy reflections plug-ins and fractal noise, but was having trouble getting it looking just right.

Thanks, Andrew!
Shavkat
16 years ago
Thank you friends
Jman
16 years ago
All this rain/water stuff lately has got me curious about what you might be working on. I just happen to be working on a project with a rain/water theme right now. I just set up a very similar comp with the letters reflecting in the water. I used CC drizzle for the displacement map and it worked pretty good, but it was missing a little something. Then I see your project.. Fractal Noise!

Aside from that, I was happy to see that my comp was really pretty close to your setup. It feels good to know I might actually be doing it right!
A month to late for me, but still awesome
Sandy
16 years ago
thnx continues.........VCP Rocks
Zvi
16 years ago
So far the winning tutorial for most views is.....
43. Demon Face Warp....
with 582,684 Views.

The winning tutorial for most comments...
67. Advanced Car Hit...
with 777 Comments.
Syrus
16 years ago
hey Andrew, Could you pls make a tutorial on how to link HD pictures with footage to achieve a zoom in effect. So that one could link your earth zoom to footage and zoom into a scene
16 years ago
Andrew, I sometimes wish I could kiss your mind, especially the prefrontal cortex. You make every fibre in my body rumble which travels down my vertebral column thus giving me thrills and adrenaline rush by %5. You truly are a great man.
Les
16 years ago
Andrew,
Can you put up a sample video with this?
Although I don't own AE, I own all of your products because I can still many of them in Vegas.
I do like to see all that you do with AE and hope that I can purchase it in the future.
Thanks,
Les
Marko
16 years ago
dude dude dude dude dude dude dude !!!
u`re awesome)))
Grtbst
16 years ago
THANK YOU
Grtbst
16 years ago
YEAHH!!!!
THNX
16 years ago
Awesome!!
how do you un-desaturate it? I want more colour!
Sabeer
16 years ago
Hi

Very cool. Andrew can u made me a favour. I hav a commercial work in which i hav a mask peeling effect, i placed the tow videos and used the liquify effect. But im not getting the real peeling effect, it seems like as if ur sliding a curtain. Can u help me to find out a solution

Thanx in advance

sabeer
dex
16 years ago
good one
PJ121
16 years ago
Shavkat,
Newtown is a free text download at http://www.fontstock.net/10895/Newtown-Italic.html
Timinator
16 years ago
Thanks a lot Andrew!
Johneg Mnemoneg
16 years ago
Andrew ... looks cool! But why U desaturated it???

I think, orange "VIDEO" with glow looks more cool. No?
16 years ago
Shavkat, I just googled Newtown text and found it that way.
It is pretty east to find.
David W.
16 years ago
Great stuff man, great stuff. It's cool that you look at older tutorials and projects and renew and upgrade them.

Shavkat, look it up on Google. You can find it on several websites
Shavkat
16 years ago
Thanks Mr.Kramer. Mr.Kramer I don't have "Newtown" Text style. How can I find it or download? Thaks
16 years ago
Thanks !
zbx
16 years ago
Nice guy!
bri
16 years ago
today, i see a comercial in TV.. but was not like others comercials .. was using your ENERGETIC TITLES!! was so funny.. 22.000.000 of people can see it becouse was in a public channel in Argentina... you're my god.. know that..
thanks you all that you do.. i'll see this project.. bye bye!.. i'm sorry.. maybe my english is not good ..
leave you kisses from Mendoza, Argentina:
bri
highdefw
16 years ago
Well you didn't HAVE to.... but you know we love it. thx
16 years ago
Sweet dude
16 years ago
You are the man my friend, I will rep this site and your products till the end. Great job Andrew and the VP team keep it comin you guys are heros among men.

God Bless
trojan
16 years ago
Thanks Andrew! You're the greatest!
Prodat TV
16 years ago
Man, you did it again, pretty cool.
and I need.

Look that I need a tutorial where you can show us to integrate musical notes in a real environment. ie text as if they were flying, but with volume, shadows and reflections, if possible. like balloons, with very soft and slow movements between the objects and people or behind of them.

Thanx a lot AK & VC Team
Allen Ellis
16 years ago
Here's an Quicktime for anyone who wants to see:

http://www.allenellis.com/public/Reflect_water_.mov

Thanks Andrew
Eli
16 years ago
Thank you, I was looking at that tut. recently and couldn't really apply it to anything, this project file is much more versatile and accepting of changes.
hazem
16 years ago
i luv u man... ak is the kinda of guy that everyone trusts and loves......you want to know the truth i would have never gotin into after effects if it wasnt for andrew kramer....
peter
16 years ago
sorry ... thnx andrew
peter
16 years ago
thnx andrey and happy anniversary
16 years ago
Many thanks Andrew. I am using this technique in a video I am working on with a client tonight. I will test out the new project file and try to use it instead of the older one. THANKS!!!!!
Jan
16 years ago
youre the reason I visit theee internet.
Eddie
16 years ago
Thanx
Owca
16 years ago
Great !
Tnx
16 years ago
Gonna work with this one...i love it!!!
Pablo
16 years ago
NICEEEEEEEEEEEE
DDVP
16 years ago
very cool
David K.
16 years ago
cool
16 years ago
sounds great!
16 years ago
Yeah, I'll try
Tayler
16 years ago
cool
16 years ago
Dope to the umph degree. YEAH
rudemen
16 years ago
Thanks!
Tyle Renake
16 years ago
awesomeness