# Water/smoke - Strokeeffect?!
**URL:** https://forum.highend3d.com/t/water-smoke-strokeeffect/8809
**Category:** Compositing
**Tags:** after-effects
**Created:** [September 26, 2005, 5:00pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/water-smoke-strokeeffect/8809 "2005-09-26T17:00:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@mickna](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/mickna)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2005, 5:00pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/water-smoke-strokeeffect/8809/1 "2005-09-26T17:00:58Z")
Hi there!
I hope U can help me out!!! 
I have to do an effect and no idea how to get this:
A person is acting for a white wall and we see some kind of "smoke" (I think it's more liquid) coming from the back of the person.
First shot is no person and the "smoke" is coming in and build the person
Second shot: the person acts and the smoke is on his back
Third: person will "flow away" with the "smoke"
PLZ see the picture what I mean. It's not to get the person in and out. It's more the look of the smoke / liquid....
Is there a nice way to do it with AFX and some plugins? Any idea to get this look?
THX and have a nice day,
mickna
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### Author:  [@jtk77](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/jtk77)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2005, 1:49pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/water-smoke-strokeeffect/8809/2 "2005-09-27T13:49:37Z")
what you are asking for can be very complicated. If it was me I would not do it in After effects alone. I'd employ the help of maya fluid effects or better yet, realflow and then take it back into aftereffects.
AE does have animatable paint tools to do it by hand or with rotoscoped mattes. that will take a lot of time.
There are plugins like
AEflame that can do whispy fractals but I don't think that will get you what you are looking for. I don't know of a plugin that will work for you to create something that looks good enough and that you can manipulate to get this through AE. If you find something that works, feel free to post it.
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### Author:  [@mickna](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/mickna)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2005, 2:05pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/water-smoke-strokeeffect/8809/3 "2005-09-27T14:05:22Z")
Hey jtk77 again!
Wow! THX!!!!
Ups! This is really funny! I searched about plugins with liquid and so on. I really forgot fluids!!! _argh_
U are right!!! I'll give them a try!!!
AEflame: Not really what I expect. I think the fractals are not looking like on the image. In my opinion I don't get the look even with tweaking....
No, no... You are right and thanx for the tip!
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### Author:  [@jtk77](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/jtk77)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2005, 7:52pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/water-smoke-strokeeffect/8809/4 "2005-09-27T19:52:35Z")
yeah, you can get whisps with AEflame but not like what you want.
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### Author:  [@unafraid](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/unafraid)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2006, 12:16am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/water-smoke-strokeeffect/8809/5 "2006-03-08T00:16:20Z")
Trapcode particular for after effects will save you hours of rendering and setup in maya. You can get just as good effects with this plug-in in half the time. Especially for what you are describing. Complex animations are what you should save fluid effects for.
Jeremy