Fake Water - Adding Pretend Water in After Effects 

Incredible how much work can go into putting a realistic looking puddle into a 3 second clip. Maddening!!! You're a pro, man. Good work.

I'm gonna be posting more often, guys. Great time to subscribe if you haven't. :)

It's so refreshing to watch a tutorial by an actual professional!

I'm loving these tutorials! You taking us through your thinking process is very insightful.

as you mentioned, working and talking through problems is a great way to teach. even though you didn't end up using all the blurs that you tried out, I learned what those other ones could be used for. I'm looking forward to the 4th!

This is great. I always imagine doing something like this has to be more complex, but you create such awesome results using "basic" techniques. Really cool! Thanks for sharing! :)

Just wanna say that i appreciate the work that you put in, keep it up ! (:

This is so good. Thank you!!!! I am a much improved motion graphic artist thanks to your channel.

You are truely amazing and talented! Problably the best special effect artist out there especially since you're colorblind makes it even more amazing that you can set the colors right for you for others to see. Truly talented

Wonderful stuff! To me, the magic of editing and special effects is never the final product​, but how you get there in the first place.

I know "Dad Life" is hectic and crazy busy but...... I would LOVE to see more in depth tutorials if you ever get the chance :) Absolutely LOVE watching your tutes :)

Personally I think this channel is the best channel for VFX! Your skills are amazing and I like seeing that not all goes well the first time! Keep up the good stuff!

This was super helpful! Really looking forward to more tutorials like this!

I love your videos & I'm excited you are creating how-tos. I prefer the longer unedited tutorial videos. I just started making "special effect" videos with my son. You are an inspiration. Thank you.

This is really cool! Thank you for teaching! Much love

i'm glad i found your channel, i've seen your videos before and i think they are awesome, new sub here. i look forward to more videos.

Yep. This was awesome. Thanks for showing us how you do this stuff.

Great video! Very helpful and it gets right to the point with good explanation

Thank you very much for this tutorial! Can't wait the next one :p

Thank you, very much, for sharing this!!

You're like the Bob Ross of After Effects!

Yes more tutorials please

I'm colour blind too and I do art haha! I find greens and yellows hard to distinguish and also pinks and Greys, blues and purples and brown and red.

Thank you for your tutorials I really appreciate it, keep doing please.

Great work!

I had no clue you could parent masks from different layers in After Effects!

you are so talented

This was great!

so you can't tell the difference between the green Y axis and the red X axis? I am also colourblind, only I have problems with, yellow/green, purple/blue, brown/red

just keep it up you are like my new teacher after video copilt

At what age do you plan on giving lessons to James?

What music are you using for your background? Love it! Thank you for all your amazing work! :)

Awesome tutorial :D i would like to try to put some realistic texture of the lake or river bed to the bottom with little transparency. What is the background music, it is very cool it seems to be a integral part of the tutorial :D

Hi I am new to ae, I was able to create a scene, add rain, add plants, but I want to make the little spa area water move, and the lantern outside light up and flicker, I am not sure how to do these things, would I be able to pay you for a tutorial, like through google pay, and we could do it on zoom? I think it would only take about 30 minutes, been trying so hard to animate this little area of water, and make the lantern in this picture animate flicker. Thanks

why not camera lens blur with a map so you can repeat edge pixels? great vid, by the way, thank you

what app to you use to make your movies

Is it possible that you can give these file to practice on, or make another similar video with the files to follow along :)

Amazing!

cool break down

Impressive!

oh wow the ultimate video editor gives lessons?! lol

You are awesome! I wanna learn how to make special effects on the iPad and chrome book. Can you help me

great!

Dope

whats this plugin for AE you type the effects so fast, like in spotlight in mac os?

Do u really work for dreamworks?

Thanks.

OMFG ur awesome

What software is this??

thx so mush

subscribed... xD

your awesome bro.... teach me!!! or show me the way

subtitles in spanish please

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