Apple Motion: Realistic Rain Tutorial (Revised)

NEW IMPROVED VERSION. It's easy to fake rain. What's not so easy to is to fake rain landing on a wet surface. In this tutorial we'll make a realistic scene of rain falling on a Tokyo street.
Follow-up tutorial here: • Apple Motion: Realisti...
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Assets: tokyo-uk.com/Motion/RainAssets...
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[@IannisMaragakis]

Rejoice! The man is back! Also, because of my excitement, I check the 'like' button before watching the video.

[@Pelempar]

Dear Simon Welcome back. I think everybody is happy to see news from you. Thanks for your support Peter

[@jusachipa]

It's time for me to free up some memory, Simons back! ♥️

[@larryjellison1331]

Excellent tutorial Simon. Very glad to see you are back. You never cease to amaze me with your Motion prowess.

[@RussDnB]

Can't stress how happy I am to see an Apple Motion tutorial from you Simon. You always brought the best videos on this app. Off topic (ish), I hope you're looking at a potential update for Super Glow running on Apple Silicon. I'd absolutely love to see how it could perform on that new architecture.

[@BrianLife]

Oh WOW!!! Love this!! Thanks!

[@KnightBott]

It's amazing!!! Thank you sooo much for this rain splash tutorial! Finally someone to teach this technique expertly. I'm such a fan of your work. :)

[@josedelapenarodriguez1349]

Hi Simon so happy you're back. You have no idea how much I missed your tutorials. You taught me so many techniques for Motion 5 and I am so grateful for that. Thank you so much.

[@rolandrick]

The Master is back. Can’t appreciate enough. Besides: I am your biggest fan independent which tool you use for doing your miracles.

[@BrianLife]

Amazing work and tutorial! Thank you!!!

[@inknpaintCW]

Super nice work!

[@toddlask]

those lights add a nice extra! very cool looking!

[@AllenRowell]

Super excited to see another Ubsdell tutorial for Motion. I just finished working through it. THANKS a million!

Great tutorial. Glad to see you back. Thanks for sharing!

[@JamarHarden723]

I am grateful you shared your gift today!

[@csound55]

Brilliant!

[@rjvddoes]

Thanks Simon! Very impressive and packed with useful techniques.

[@mdjwww5]

Dear Simon , what good you're back . I see you have made some fantastic music in the meantime, and now this exciting tutorial . I hope all is well with you and your dear ones . I missed your tutorials , which made many days in learning and developing days . I am very grateful and on a regular basis i try to improve thanks to all your wonderful tutorials . Hope you'll be back for a long time . Looking forward to hear over and over again " This is Simon Ubsdel......" . Thank you so much

[@SimonUbsdell]

Many thanks for your very kind comment.

[@DerDinoDomi]

Great!!!!

[@renomarketing2108]

Thank you so much Simon, your the best and I hope you make a tutorial for the elements.

[@TheSpherico]

Wow, amazing! Thanks Simon!

[@SimonUbsdell]

Thanks, Andreas :)

[@ronnycourtens8658]

Amazing tutorial, Simon!

[@SimonUbsdell]

Thank you, dear Ronny.

[@clarkerson]

Gotta respect how Simon spends half the video getting 95% there, and the other half of the video perfecting the last 5%

[@timbeaton5045]

Yay! Great t have you back again, Simon! Been too long! Now a question.... would it be possible, (albeit much more taxing on the sytem?) to use a background movie, rather than a static shot?

[@benmarkfilms]

Thanks for another great tutorial Simon! I was just curious how you set the camera movement to pan across? I did everything and then it went horribly wrong when I started to guess how you did the camera movement? Thanks in advance :)

[@SimonUbsdell]

I set up my initial camera position to be: -85 on X, zero on Y and -400 on Z. (Rotation is zero for XYZ). I used a Throw Behavior on the camera (set to Ramp to Final Value) with a value of 206 for X and 450 for Z. I also used a Sweep (set to Swivel Y) with a start of -5 degrees and an end of zero degrees. Hope that helps. I didn't have an especially scientific plan for the camera move! There are plenty of other ways of exploring the scene.

[@JamarHarden723]

Great Day, what version of motion 5 are you using at the time of the tutorial?

[@SimonUbsdell]

5.4.7