Sunset over the Ocean

A Creative Cow Basic Adobe After Effects Tutorial

Omar Alkattan Iraq ©2010 Omar Alkattan and Creativecow.net. All rights reserved.

Article Focus: In this basic tutorial, Omar Alkattan will continue with his creating an ocean tutorial and in this tutorial, we'll add clear skies with a sunset.

If you haven't seen the previous episode of this tutorial, please click on the link below, or click on Omar's picture above to find all of the tutorials in the series:

http://library.creativecow.net/articles/alkattan_omar/rainy_ocean_scene.php

 

Now

Do the following:

1-Create new composition with the following properties:

 

2-Add black solid layer with comp size

 

3-Name it water and add make it 3D, then change the following properties (scale, orientation) and change the Material Options: Ambient to 25

(to view Material Options hit : aa) 

 

 

4- Add Ramp fx with the following properties:

Start color: 255, 170, 75

End  color: 200, 100, 25

 

5- Add Fractal Noise fx with the following properties:

 

6- At the end of timeline, change the Evolution to 180:

7-Add CC Glass fx with the following properties:

 

8- Add Curves fx with the following properties:

 

8-Add the black solid again and name it Sky and make it 3D with the following properties:

 

9- Add Ramp fx with the following properties:

 

Start color: 255, 255, 0

End color: 150, 60, 0

 

10- Add Fractal Noise fx with the following properties:

Just change the Blending mode to (Screen)

 

 

 

11- Add the black solid again and name it Sun  

 

12- Add Fill fx with the following properties:

Color: 255, 150, 0

 

13- On this layer (the Sun layer) draw a circle by mask (ellipse tool + pressing Shift) like this:

 

13- Change the Mask Feather to 10

 

14- Now change the Position to:

 

 

 

16- Add Light 1 (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+L) with the following properties:

Color: 255, 150, 50

 

17- Change the Position of Light 1 to:

 

18- Add Light 2 (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+L) with the following properties:

Color: 255, 150, 50

 

19- Change the Position of Light 2 to:

 

20- Add Light 3 (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+L) with the following properties:

Color: 255, 150, 50

 

21- Change the Position of Light 3 to:

 

22- Add Light 4 (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+L) with the following properties:

Color: 75, 25, 0

 

Now your Timeline should be looks like this:

 

And you’ve got this nice view:

 

 

Have fun
Omar Alkattan