Cartoon Fire Animation in After Effects! NO PLUGINS!

Learn how to make a procedure fire animation without having to animate it frame by frame!

00:00 - Step 1: Draw tear drop shape
00:10 - Step 2: Apply Wave warp
00:16 - Step 3: Zero out the direction
00:21 - Step 4: Adjust the height and width of the wave
00:27 - Step 5: Duplicate the layer and adjust
00:32 - Step 5: Activate Alpha Matte on the bottom layer
00:39 - Step 7: Reverse height on the top layer
00:45 - Step 8: Increase wave speed (just a bit)
00:53 - Step 9: Set pinning to bottom edge
1:09 - Step 10: Pre-compose everything

Hope this was helpful! I like to make these tutorials quick and easy to follow. You can really customize this to look how you want and make some really cool cartoon fire in After Effects. The advantage of After Effects fire animations are that you can save time by not having to animate frame by frame, but allowing the After Effects algorithm take over to create some great organic fluid motion in your flame. If you want to learn more After Effects, let me know what topics to tackle next in the comments below!

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[NocoTheToortul]

one of the best tutorials ive ever seen. perfect if you just want to quickly get something over with. sadly it lacks the explanations which means you still gotta figure out what everything does on its own to achieve this effect. Still. I love it.
10/10 would set on fire again.

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great vid, Love how short and to the point it is. Literally in the middle of a project rn. Thanks!

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