Realistic Rain At Night Using VFX | Adobe After Effects Tutorial

In this packed tutorial, we will show you how to composite rain on a night scene in Adobe After Effects. We will be using ActionVFX’s rain VFX stock footage collections, as well as brief look into tracking with Mocha and the Puppet Pin Tool. There is a lot to cover in this tutorial, so get your umbrella ready!

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VFX Shot by Sam Crowe

00:00 Intro
0:25 Looking at Rain References
01:01 Tracking the scene using Mocha
02:35 Adding the Fog
04:26 Creating the Rain on The Background
05:37 Creating “Implied Rain” FX
11:37 Compositing the Rain on the Headlights
13:50 Compositing the Rain on The Ground
15:29 Compositing the overall Rain Fall
17:00 Finishing touches

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[brokenstudiotv]

The compositing work is top notch, but I doubt it would turn out as good if it weren't for the High Quality Stock Footage that you guys provide!
Thanks for this awesome tutorial <3

[castelatus]

It requires a lot of effort just to create a 3 seconds of a perfect rain scene!

[OaklynMediaLLC]

Your pace and level of detail you go into is absolutely flawless!!!

[DerekHartley]

Probably one of your most impressive tutorials to date. A lot of work but wow, the end results are so worth it.

[badhon]

At last a great tutorial for rain effect. you deserve more than just a thanks.

[misbahasghar]

This tutorial showed the hard work and efforts of the behind the camera heroes! (The actual heroes the visual artists) of all the movies and stuff that we see and enjoy!!! Oh Goddd I'm sooo fkn impressed by your video mannn! Y'all artists/editors out there have gained my respect and lotsss of love! ❤️

Edit: PS: you deserve more subscribes man such a understand channel ughhh!

[anonymanonym]

This is insane. I'm getting into after effects and it's incredible to see what's possible.
You got my sub!

[AdhirajMathur]

I don’t even do VFX but I watched the whole 18 min video 🤣 Very interesting! Results were crazy!

I wanted to do a rain scene in my upcoming music video! But it’s no rain season! Guess I’ll have to learn some VFX now 🤪

[Ghost-jwcg]

I won't even gonna do this but still watched the whole thing haha you're so good wow

[TheSiimur]

You guys are amazing! DONT STOP with these tuts! <3

[timfeistner]

Amazing tutorial, thanks man! Really on point but not too fast to follow. Subbed & excited for more!

[ActionVFXofficial]

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[marianigianluca]

I watched the all video with my mouth open. I have to do the same effect for a video clip and in some way now Im inspired, thank you.

[CorporationShine]

using puppet pin for footage, cool idea, thx

[vishalbhadhoriya]

It's Looks Like Natural Raining🔥🔥

[RainAmbienceASMR]

Thank You, Very Nice Adobe After Effects Tutorial

[crosscreations_de]

That one guy watching you from the backseat: 10:38

[federicomeneghini]

Man, this tutorial is crazy good. Thanks!

[mattwolcott]

Inspiring! Would love to see more like this using Fusion as well.

[engomanman]

Great tutorial ! Covers almost all the tools and techniques in single video !