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Create a water surface: Part 1

Create a water surface: Part 1

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Create a water surface: Part 1

- [Instructor] For this next effect, we'll create a water surface texture by blurring and stretching some fractal noise, applying the CC glass effect, then adding a color gradient over the top of the texture creating this graffical effect. And we'll complete this texture over the next three videos. So here in part one, lets begin with a new project inside of After Effects. And so now I'm back inside of After Effects with a new, untitled project. Let's come up to the composition menu. Let's come down and choose new composition. Let's name this water. For the width and the height, let's set this to 1500 by 1500. Square pixels, color doesn't matter. And we'll choose OK. So now we have a new composition, we can see this in the project panel. It's also opened in the composition panel as well. So now we're gonna' create a new blank layer. So we can apply an effect to this. And we've done this a few times already. So let's come up to the layer menu. Let's come down to new. Let's choose…

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