2D Smoke & Explosions in After Effects Tutorial

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[@BenMarriott]

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[@Muffinman17JG]

You're a freaking genius. I've been wanting a purely Ae, no plug-in tutorial on cartoon explosions for years, thanks so much Ben 👍 Could you use the roughen effect for easier "dissipation" of the smoke near the end?

[@BenMarriott]

Oooo, roughen edges is a very good call. thanks my man! :D

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Might be one of my favourites of yours yet!

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I was smiling and headshaking during some segments of this tutorial. It's so simple yet so clean looking. You sir, are a boss. Keep up the good work!

[@Dr.JimmyBrungus]

That was a masterclass on After Effects effects.

[@TheFinalMB]

Boom!! Explosions!!! Love it, can’t wait to throw this down on something fun

[@BenMarriott]

Thanks mate! Throw this over anything, if your client complains tell them I told you to do it.

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@@BenMarriott well given I’m my own client, I’ll let me know that you said for me to do it to myself :p

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Mannn this cut out with noise idea is brilliant. Thanks!

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Thank you for the amazing tutorial!

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Crop to region of interest... I'm happy already after learning that shortcut! :D

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Such a life saver :D

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Use the autocrop plugin, it doesn’t reposition the layer if it’s a precomp after cropping!

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Huge like to this video! Really really useful and easy to make. Thanks a lot.)))

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[@jerrykurek7986]

This is brilliant! Especially love the idea of using noise with the extract effect to break up the smoke.

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Ah yes more things to try out after being up for 24hrs

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Haha, you're not really trying NEW stuff until 72 hours when you start seeing spiders

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Oh man that's so awesome to read! so glad it's been useful :)

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another great demonstration of skills. thanks

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[@BenMarriott]

Thanks so much! :D If you were around earlier you would have saved me from some terrible contracts too haha

[@CarlCampbell]

Man, this is great! I'm currently working on a project that draws heavily from 2D animation and it's great to see how a little ingenuity goes a long way. Thanks so much for sharing your process and tips!

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Very good explanations, you won a sub, mr.

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Thank you. This will come in handy!

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first time hearing about the extract effect , big thanks to you sir

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The result its amazing

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Finally found this great tutorial, thanx for the great work Ben..

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Thanks for finding it!

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Awesome, what a life saver!

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Thanks for watching :D happy to save lives with cartoon smoke haha

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as cool as always

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Thank you so much for watching, I couldn't do these without you all. I really appreciate the comment too :D

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[@coenrens]

Really, really cool tutorial. Great to see you get so much out of a simple circle animation, maintaining control while achieving a very traditional cel animation looking result. This could be applied to so many effects like this! Good inspiration, thank you!

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