How to create RAIN and THUNDER in After Effects

Make it rain in After Effects - VFX Thunderstorm

0:00 Intro
02:15 Create weather lights
14:51 Create a storm-cloud, thunder and lightning
24:36 Create Rain in After Effects
32:36 Create Rain Drops on the lens

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RAIN & LIGHNTNING in After Effects - VFX Tutorial
How to use stock elements from Action VFX to create a rain scene in Adobe After effects.

In this after effects tutorial you will learn how to turn a normal scene into a rainy thunder storm scene with vfx rain, lighting, lightning bolt, storm clouds, weather lights and rain drops on the camera lens.

This tutorial was created using stock elements from Action VFX:

For this tutorial I used the Storm Clouds as well as the FREE Lightning pack.

But I am also going to show you how to create most of the effects from scratch and we will only use stock footage and stock elements when we really need it.

Therefore the tutorial will be split in 4 easy to follow parts:
1. Create weather lights
2. create a hero element, in this case a stormcloud with a lightning stroke
3. crate realistic rain
4. add rain drops to your camera lense

In the first part of this tutorial you will learn how to create weather lights in a really easy and simple way. you will learn how to create depth within the clouds with stacking them and using a luma key to put something inside the clouds.
You will learn how to best use and set up stock elements from Action VFX. As a bonus I will show you how to create interactive lighting on the ground with some highlights and the exposure effect and an overall interactive lighting with a glow effect

In the second part we concentrate on creating a main lightning bolt in after effects using the built in advanced lightning effect as well as a stock footage element from Action VFX. you will learn how to combine the elements to make them look as realistic as possible and how to composite them into the footage with color correction and depth of field.

In the 3rd part of this easy to follow tutorial you will learn how to use the rainfall effect in a more random way to create a really realistic way. In this part I will show you how to create highlights in the raindrops for interactive light. And as a last step I will show you how to use the MR Mercury effect to create rain drop that interact with the camera lens. And to make those even more realistic I am going to show you how to make them look like they are a real prism with some chromatic aberration.

We will do all of this in a 32bit float workspace, and I will also quickly explain to you the differences between 8bit 16bit and 32bit float.

As always this tutorial will be filled up with handy tips and tricks, so that it is perfect to watch for beginners as well as professionals.

Learn how to use a guide layer within after effects.
You can easily navigate through the tutorial by using the chapters

If you would like to use some elements from Action VFX for your personal project you can find their products here:

And here you will also find many free elements.

As always, if you have any questions about this tutorial, technique or any other question; leave me a comment down below and I promise I will answer all of your questions!

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[deepanshudutt]

Can't express in words, how much I learn form your tutorial.

[luisgondim]

Man, you taught us so many things, that the actual rain tutorial becomes a background (not that the rain is any less awesome), very well implemented and great explanations as usual, you're the best on the business, thank you Man!!

[gokogi]

You're really good with tutorials 👌🏼

[RichNewDesign]

Fantastic and thorough tutorial. This might be my new favorite.

[avinashpendurti]

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[ccuny]

Excellent tutorial as usual Thanks a lot.

[alieqtedarlko]

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[ZoffLogic]

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[Yousef-rbnw]

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[randydean]

Excellent tutorial as always, but this was the first time I had seen that fractal noise effect as a Luma matte!!! Thank you!! This has been a bit of a missing link for me in terms of getting the black and white values of a matte working in conjunction with an effect on the scene like one does with layer masks in photoshop. I had seen other references from other tutorials and other stock effects but for some reason had a bit of cognitive dissonance that had been plaguing me. While I still need to get deeper into the subject I feel like you have given me the lead I needed. Thanks my man!!

[editoresump]

would you make a "part 2" of this video showing the process of that ending lightning strike? specially how you broke that glass haha.
Don't know how to thank you for sharing such a deep tutorial with us, and for free, the world need people like you, thank you, thank you and thank you.

[KOTSOS]

You are great teacher, thank you very much, in past somebody made himself fighting against a character in Mortal Kombat, do you think you could do such a tutorial in the future?

[FreezeFather]

Very cool Tutorial about your rainmaking process. Just one more thing, the raindrop layer should be flipped upside down. Because waterdrops r like a lens and flip the Light. So the ground is visible in the upper part of the drop and the sky in the lower part of the drop.

[khush_]

Hey, you aree really amazing tutor of ae, can you make a tutorial of flash electric thunder running effect❤️

[luisgondim]

Hey flo! I'm rewatching the tutorial and now I have a small question, could you explain what does the "color dodge" or "classic color dodge" blending mode actually do? I saw it worked on the tutorial, but didn't get why it worked haha
early thanks and keep going with the tutorials!

[ravitejag]

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[dxvalv]

Do you have any tips for shooting footages for 3d cam tracker?

[Rosomyat]

Project file please - we need to practice. thanks

[jacksonndongo]

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[murkhnews]

really good but i was waiting for rain to cme on screen