Create a Fish Bowl Filling with Refractive Water

Shoaib Khan Last updated Dec 16, 2013

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In this tutorial, we will be creating a fish bowl, refracting water, and an animated fish. We will first start by creating water with the help of CC Mercury and CC Sphere. We'll then add all the reflections to make it look more realistic. Once the water is created, we'll duplicate the same layers to create the glass and other effects.

Finally, we will animate a still picture of a fish with puppet tool to make it dive inside the Fish Bowl.
All will be created inside After Effects with only built-in tools.

Tutorial

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Shoaib Khan

Shoaib Khan is a Freelance Motion Graphic Designer with a Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design from National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan (1995-199) and MA in Computer Imaging and Animation from Metropolitan University London, England in 2000. His MA dissertation project was show-cased in Computer Arts Magazine (53rd edition jan 2001), which is Uk's biggest selling 3D computer magazine. Shoaib has worked as an Art Director, Senior 3D Animator, 3D Visualizer, 3D Artist and Graphic Designer for different London based TV channels and Post Production companies. In 2008, Shoaib launched his Motion Graphic Tutorial Website www.maxafter.com and released his first video tutorial based on the Text Explosion effect called "Text Explosion" that became very popular. Later that year, Shoaib decided to quit his Job and jump into creating After Effects Templates & Tutorials. The Templates & Tutorials success further encouraged Shoaib Khan to work for Maxafter Full time. Shoaib has since produced and published over 50 Quality Templates and Tutorials for Maxafter, used by creative professionals, Tv Channels and post production companies around the world. Shoaib continues to work as Freelance in addition to publishing new, exciting products and tutorials for the growing motion graphics and visual effects community. For more Info checkout: www.maxafter.com