Create an Ocean in After Effects

I'll show you how to create in ocean in this After Effects tutorial. 

Creating water in After Effects isn't easy. This is mainly because After Effects isn't the right software for creating realistic water dynamics. When someone wants to create water for a high budget film they usually turn to a dynamics driven software like Houdini to simulate liquid. However, this doesn't mean that you can't simulate water at all in After Effects. 

In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to create an ocean in After Effects. This tutorial will show you everything you need to know to create psuedo-realistic water using various tools and effects that are built into After Effects. 

As with every tutorial on the site I'm giving away the project files so you can mess around and dissect my work. Just fill out the box below and you will be directed to a download window. 

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• An After Effects Project File (CS6 or Higher)

• A Rendered HD Clip of the Final Result in H264

Let me know if you have any questions. Cheers!

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