Since deciding on my project, I asked Tracey Feeney if she would create me some textures for my destroyed buildings. Tracey also asked me if I would create the rain for her short film, we have been discussing this with eachother over the duration we have been working on our own projects and the time has come where we would work on eachothers work.
When Tracey first asked me to create the rain I thought about using the particle effect in Aftereffects and did a few tests on this but I was not happy. I discuss this with Tracey and she agreed, I like the background of her project and because it is very cartoony I wanted to keep in with this. After speaking to Gary it was clear the best way to acheive this was to create a rain drop in Photoshop and then animate each individual rain drop and splash in Aftereffects. Tracey showed me the style she would like the rain drop to be in.
Below is the link of Tracey's blog where you will find her final animatic which she gave me for an idea of the rain.
Below is the rain drop style Tracey wanted throughout her short film.
After importing the rain drop into Aftereffects to get a better view of what it was going to look like, it was clear that the rain drops were the wrong colour for the piece so I decided to go back into Photoshop and create both the rain drop and splashes again.
Below is the final rain drops and splashes I used when creating the rain for Tracey.
When looking at the animatic it is clear that Tracey's original idea was to have the rain falling in sections of four which would be looped. I tried this with one lot of four rain drops and I thought that it would look better if they were all done randomly. I double checked this with Tracey and she agreed. A lot of time was spent in Aftereffects trying to get the rain flowing nicely, after spending days animating the individual rain drops and splashes Tracey began completing the rest of her scence.
Below is the rain which I created in Aftereffects for Tracey.
