Rain Effect

[user_deleted]

Hi all, i was just wondering if anyone knew the best way of putting some sort of rain over a shot!
Does'nt have to be After Effects, its just that i dont wanna do it in Maya as it will slow my rendering time!
Any thoughts Please put foward!
Thanku!

[user_deleted]

never did this myself, so i might be missing something, but did you consider rendering a short rain plate on black in maya and compositing that back in the application of your choice?

if you want to do it all in shake without plug-ins, you could try generating some rain by moving a noise plate with motion blur, but this wont be terribly fast either.

i'm sure others have better ideas though
++ christoph ++

[user_deleted]

i seem to remember seeing a Rain plug-in amongst the free downloadable shake plug-ins and macros on this very site.

[director]

While it requires you to actually get up and away from the computer, I highly reccomend you setup a camera and simulate a rain shower in your garage at night. you want a recordable area of 2x4 ft. then setup your camera angle and use only one light to give luminance to the water. This image is easily compositable into any VFX Editor like AFX or Shake. You can even throw it straight into your NLE and work with the file there.

Good luck and please let me know how it works for you.

[user_deleted]

do it in motion, if you got one. it's very fast and easy