# How To Create Photo Realistic Cloud Effects? **URL:** \ **Category:** design\ **Created:** [July 16, 2004, 9:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-photo-realistic-cloud-effects/57860 "2004-07-16T21:04:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![REEF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@REEF](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/REEF)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 9:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-photo-realistic-cloud-effects/57860/1 "2004-07-16T21:04:09Z")
Is there anyway that I can make a photo realistic cloud effects with real looking clouds that just move without buying AE plugins and/or using combustion? Any way to make them in 3DSM6? Or even just AE? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 9:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-photo-realistic-cloud-effects/57860/2 "2004-07-16T21:21:13Z")
might help [http://www.ayatoweb.com/ae\_tips\_e/ae46\_e.html](http://www.ayatoweb.com/ae_tips_e/ae46_e.html) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 9:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-photo-realistic-cloud-effects/57860/3 "2004-07-16T21:29:28Z")
Nice Link mlk. That is pretty neat. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 9:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-photo-realistic-cloud-effects/57860/4 "2004-07-16T21:32:40Z")
i think the simplest and easiest thing to do is just take a picture of clouds or use a stock photo. But you want to create them//and i dont know how to do that ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 9:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-photo-realistic-cloud-effects/57860/5 "2004-07-16T21:37:03Z")
you’d have a real difficulty animating realistic clouds with just a stock photos; it’s often distorted, too small and doesn’t fit. Besides animating a cloudy sky is more than panning a pic of a cloud. If you had some stock video; _that_ would help… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 9:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-photo-realistic-cloud-effects/57860/6 "2004-07-16T21:39:50Z")
i dont know why u would even want the clouds…in my opinion they are overused, too many sites are using the clouds, or sky on their sites. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 9:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-photo-realistic-cloud-effects/57860/7 "2004-07-16T21:45:32Z")
I’m not using them for sites. I’m using them just to learn. And the point is not clouds. With the structure of clouds you can create lots of things. Water, dust and so on ;). I’m looking to use this inside after effects ;). You’ll see why I’m making this later. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 9:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-photo-realistic-cloud-effects/57860/8 "2004-07-16T21:46:54Z")
…expect yet another new tut from Sharif… Basically you’ve got to go inside the wonders of fractals in AE ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 9:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-photo-realistic-cloud-effects/57860/9 "2004-07-16T21:55:09Z")
Oh I never had the thought of making a cloud tutorial. I don’t know if you were mad at me or something for making tutorials but trust me I won’t make one. I’m making something in AE and I just want to know if clouds are possible before I start. It’s for a battle verses Berk (I haven’t started without him) so I just wanted to know if possible. Thanks anyways. BTW - Ayatos tutorials are really bad but I will give this a try ;). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 10:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-photo-realistic-cloud-effects/57860/10 "2004-07-16T22:25:54Z")
[SIZE=1]_thinking…_[/SIZE] [SIZE=1][COLOR=Silver][/COLOR]huh…he´s going to use cool effects like water and clouds in the battle??? I think I´ll have to use my super-dupper-ultra-cool-outofthisworld-exclusive-effects to finish him fast[/SIZE] :bad: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 10:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-photo-realistic-cloud-effects/57860/11 "2004-07-16T22:26:44Z")
Lol Berk I’m not even sure if these clouds will work. And don’t copy my little general idea ;P. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 10:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-photo-realistic-cloud-effects/57860/12 "2004-07-16T22:30:16Z")
dont worry, I already have my idea but I havent started it yet, Im just in the “thinking what to do” stage 😉 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 10:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-photo-realistic-cloud-effects/57860/13 "2004-07-16T22:43:42Z")
> I don’t know if you were mad at me or something for making tutorials but trust me I won’t make one. unh? no… why the hell should I ? - I just noticed you did the 4 last tuts on the front page so I was like… wow. The tab one was cool. I had no idea about it. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 10:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-photo-realistic-cloud-effects/57860/14 "2004-07-16T22:47:35Z")
Oh I thought you were being sarcasting like “oh hell, here’s another d\*mn tutorial by this guy” :P. Oh and I have 5 ;). And thanks. – Trying this cloud tutorial but I have no idea how he turns it so it goes up into the view and sort of rotates like where the sky is. And I can’t even get it to move like his. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 3:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-photo-realistic-cloud-effects/57860/15 "2004-07-17T15:14:28Z")
Gotta play with fractals then, right ? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 4:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-photo-realistic-cloud-effects/57860/16 "2004-07-17T16:24:44Z")
Guess so. I’m gonna give it another try today. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 6:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-photo-realistic-cloud-effects/57860/17 "2004-08-04T06:31:49Z")
If you have a wacom tablet I know of this tutorial site to paint realistic clouds. [http://www.idigitalemotion.com/tutorials/guest/clouds/clouds.html](http://www.idigitalemotion.com/tutorials/guest/clouds/clouds.html) Of course these are just basic clouds. You can get much more detailed given some imagination and alot of time. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 7:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-photo-realistic-cloud-effects/57860/18 "2004-08-04T07:46:33Z")
if u have maya, you can use the fluid effects to make fantastic clouds 🙂 edit// woops… just read that ur using max. nvm 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-photo-realistic-cloud-effects/57860/19 "2004-08-04T15:07:03Z")
if you want ultra realistic clouds use a 3d proggy that has particles or HV’s. try terragen or vue 4 also ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 4:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-photo-realistic-cloud-effects/57860/20 "2004-08-04T16:29:54Z")
if u feel lazy just download a picture from google 🙂 [Next page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-create-photo-realistic-cloud-effects/57860.md?page=2)