Climate and the Environment
Even if you’re not called upon to re-create extreme
climate conditions (as someone once pointed out seems
to be a theme in my work), even a casual glance out the
window demonstrates that the meteorological phenomena
are always in play: a breeze is blowing in the trees, or water
and particulate in the air are changing the appearance of
buildings and the land closest to the horizon.
This chapter offers methods to create natural elements such
as particulate and wind effects, as well as to replace a sky, or
add mist, fog, or smoke, or other various forms of precipitation.
All of these are more easily captured with a camera
than re-created in After Effects, but sometimes the required
conditions aren’t available on the day of a shoot. Mother
nature is, after all, notoriously fi ckle, and shooting just to get
a particular environment can be extraordinarily expensive.
It’s rare indeed that weather conditions cooperate on
location, and even rarer that a shoot can wait for perfect
weather or can be set against the perfect backdrop. Transforming
the appearance of a scene using natural elements
is among the more satisfying things you can do as a
compositor.
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