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Joe Summerhays
August 10, 2016

Recipe 20 - Ocean Waves

Joe Summerhays
August 10, 2016
Recipe 20 - Ocean Waves

Learning how to make basic surface wave effects will float your boat, or anything else nautical .

Joe Summerhays
August 1, 2016

Recipe 21 - Chimney Smoke

Joe Summerhays
August 1, 2016
Recipe 21 - Chimney Smoke

Using SloMO to create a lazy haze of smoke rising from a chimney. Sophisticated animators only. Patience pays off!

Joe Summerhays
July 20, 2016

Recipe 22 - Snow Splash Effects

Joe Summerhays
July 20, 2016
Recipe 22 - Snow Splash Effects

Three ways to deal with the physics of debris generated from different trajectories. Demonstrated with snow here, but usable with dirt, water, or any thing that kicks up after an impact.

Joe Summerhays
July 10, 2016

Recipe 23 - Comet Tail

Joe Summerhays
July 10, 2016
Recipe 23 - Comet Tail

An ingenious use of toggle. Creating the effect of streams trailing behind a flying object. Use with parallax for even better effect.

Joe Summerhays
July 1, 2016

Recipe 24 - Water Faucet

Joe Summerhays
July 1, 2016
Recipe 24 - Water Faucet

Water falling from a faucet using a simple toggle strategy. Also great for waterfalls!

Joe Summerhays
June 20, 2016

Recipe 25 - Tsunami

Joe Summerhays
June 20, 2016
Recipe 25 - Tsunami

Applying a two toggles to a path, create an animation of a huge frothy wave rolling through a scene.

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Combining Basic Animation Recipes To Create Special Effects

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Recipe 1 - Parallax Motorboat

Parallax: The boat stays still while the waves zip by and the roostertail toggles.

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Recipe 2 - Parallax Airplane with Clouds

Parallax: The plane stays still, but the clouds move at different speeds in the background and foreground.

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Recipe 3 - Parallax Car

Parallax: An advanced recipe with spinning loops on the wheels, toggling street cutouts, and fast and slow motion trees all combined in a loop!

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Recipe 4 - Moving Away

Moving a character from near to far is tricky in 2D. Here is one way to do it.

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Recipe 5 - Moving Towards

From far to near a mosquito flies into the lens with a Splat!  

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Recipe 6 - Small Explosion

A little boom recipe for explosive animated moments.

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Recipe 7 - Large Explosion

A big cartoon "boom" formula with flare

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Recipe 8 - Poof

Sometimes a little "Poof" is all you need

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Recipe 9 - Fighting Cloud

A classic tussle effect which clouds a dust up

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Recipe 10 - Falling Leaf

Fall for this elegant drifting leaf formula using speeding up and slowing down formulas

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Recipe 11 - Rocket Blast Off

Launch into this recipe with toggles and speeding up rocket smoke

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Recipe 12 - Water Splash

Create water splash effects with this Belly Flop Formula

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Recipe 13 - Camera Shake

Get shaking with this rumbling recipe

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Recipe 14 - Zooming

Zooming in on this recipe will change your medium shots into smooth close-ups

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Recipe 15 - Cracks & Shatters

Windows, ice, eggs and stones crack and shatter. Now you can too!

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Recipe 16 - Lightning

Flashes of brilliance with the lightning special effect recipe

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Recipe 17 - Flag Wave

Looping and cycling a flapping flag in the wind.

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Recipe 18 - Candle Flicker

Toggling a flame with a slow motion smoke finale!

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Recipe 19 - Tornado

We are not in Kansas anymore with this twister toggling on a path.

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Recipe 20 - Ocean Waves

Learning how to make basic surface wave effects will float your boat, or anything else nautical .

Read More →
Recipe 21 - Chimney Smoke

Using SloMO to create a lazy haze of smoke rising from a chimney. Sophisticated animators only. Patience pays off!

Read More →
Recipe 22 - Snow Splash Effects

Three ways to deal with the physics of debris generated from different trajectories. Demonstrated with snow here, but usable with dirt, water, or any thing that kicks up after an impact.

Read More →
Recipe 23 - Comet Tail

An ingenious use of toggle. Creating the effect of streams trailing behind a flying object. Use with parallax for even better effect.

Read More →
Recipe 24 - Water Faucet

Water falling from a faucet using a simple toggle strategy. Also great for waterfalls!

Read More →
Recipe 25 - Tsunami

Applying a two toggles to a path, create an animation of a huge frothy wave rolling through a scene.

Read More →
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