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Simulating the ball being blown away

Simulating the ball being blown away - After Effects Tutorial

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Simulating the ball being blown away

You just track the ball that we already made to her hand. And we've already talked about how to do that so we're not going to dig into that effect. so we're not going to dig into that effect. But then there's also this one where Tahani blows that particle away. where Tahani blows that particle away. Now before I made this shot I had assumed that Now before I made this shot I had assumed that it would be a super quick and easy effects shot. I mean the ball is already made right? So just animate it blowing off screen and be done. Well, I didn't really think it through all the way. The first thing that I noticed is that when blowing the ball the particles from particular needed to like blow away. They feel like they're light and airy so it only made sense that if she blew the ball the ball would go far because it's heavier but the little particles around the ball would just kind of dissipate and blow away. And it also kind of helped…

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