Hello friends welcome to this special effects tutorial from our media. We have studied how to animate both rain and lightning separately. In this assignment we will see how to use them together to make the effect impressive. Open the file rain and lightning in which rain is already animated. Add an overlay on a new layer. Select the outline and deleted press shortcut key Ctrl Z to convert it into a group.

Press ALT to create its duplicates. Edit the oval shape by using the free transform tool. Select all the three and place it insert a cloud shape and lightning can appear from under that layer. Complete the cloud by creating duplicates of the patch as seen in the video, scale it down, rotated and place it on the right side of the screen. Press out to create it duplicate, slightly rotated and place it on the left side of the screen. Fill the middle patch by creating duplicates of groups.

Select all and right click or press shortcut key f8 to convert it into a symbol. The symbol of the cloud is ready. Open the lightning file. Right click and copy the two keys of the first and the second player Close the file, add a new layer in between the rain animation and the cloud layer. Right click on the blank key and click on paste frames as seen in the video, the graphic of lightning is ready. Even though the overall composition of the rain animation and the cloud is rough, the graphic of the lightning looks impressive.

Again, follow the steps of the lightning animation rotated using free transform tool, flip it and change its position as shown in the video. Got the graphic of the lightning and paste it on the other layer so that both are on the same layer. Shift the blank layer to the upper side. Keep the circular patch of the cloud on the outline mode. Draw one rectangle on the blank layer. Delete the outline.

Change the color to green, decrease its opacity. In the same way, create a mask. animate the patch key by key and create a mask. Use the same steps to create lightning as shown in the lightning tutorial. Once you have created lightning, preview the animation edit the middle key. Delete the unnecessary part.

Animation of lightning appears key by key Both rain and lightning can be seen in the same file now, increase the frame length till 20. Copy the first keyframe and paste it on the last so that lightning appears and then disappears. The rough patch of the cloud access overlay overlay is at the upper side. Add a black tint to the cloud symbol. increase its person 200 make the background dark blue. preview it by pressing Ctrl plus enter.

Combination of black over layer lightning and rain is visible now. Add T on the cloud layer change the color of the Clouds. According to the lightning, the flash of lightning reflects on the color of the cloud. as lightning animates from the back of the cloud. The lightning is white when it is in full effect. Make variations in the same color tone, so that while the lightning is animated, de facto feed is seen on the cloud.

Keep experimenting to get better results. trying out different details on the cloud will give us some interesting results. On the rain animation, add one layer and shift it to the lower side. Name it big draw and rectangle to cover the work area and scale it up using the free transform tool. fill it with black. Delete the outline and converted into symbol and give name, bg.

All the other layers are locked. Change the value of the cloud tint preview it Select big symbol and give it a white and change its value. As the lightning effect is seen on the cloud in the same way, add it to the background layer. Give her white tend to change its intensity. Press Ctrl plus Enter to preview. On preview, you will notice that rain and lightning together make some very impressive visual effects.

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