We want the light to more naturally interact with the clouds so that rather than another flat layer, it becomes the binding layer between the fireworks and the clouds. However, from a compositing standpoint, that looks even worse! It is now even more obvious that the fireworks and the clouds layer don’t interact as the glow sits flat and ugly on top of them. You should now have a large scale glow around your fireworks effect.
Ensure that you set your project to use 32 bits per channel as I showed you in my tutorial on how to make things glow. Otherwise your glow might look unrefined and weak. Then apply a Glow effect to the layer and increase the Glow Radius and Glow Intensity settings until the firework casts a large amount of light onto the surrounding clouds.
In real life, you would expect the fireworks explosion to cast blue light onto the surrounding clouds.Ī simple way to achieve this is to duplicate the fireworks layer and place this copy just above the clouds. Right now, the fireworks layer sits on top of the clouds – and it is rather obvious that these are 2 separate layers as they don’t ‘interact’ with each other. The fireworks should now stand out much clearer against the dark clouds. I lowered the Master Saturation and the Master Lightness to around -50 to make the clouds look much more like a dark night sky. Personally I felt the clouds were much too bright for a night sky and so I applied a Hue/Saturation effect to the layer. Your fireworks should sit visibly on top of a layer of clouds. You may want to scale the clouds footage up, slow it down and enable the frame blending option so that the clouds move nice and slowly. Set the blend mode of the fireworks layer to ‘Add’. I called my fireworks layer ‘Fireworks Comp’. Import the stock footage clouds into a new composition in After Effects and then place your fireworks effect on top of it. You can create your own fireworks effect by following my After Effects & Trapcode Particular fireworks tutorial. For the clouds, Video Copilot released a free stock footage pack a while ago that contains some great clouds footage you can use for free! There are 2 pieces of footage that you will need: a fireworks effect and stock footage of some dark clouds. However, we will not be using a moving shot to keep things simple. In this tutorial we will composite the fireworks realistically onto some clouds stock footage. Here is a screenshot of the fireworks composited over the skyline of Melbourne. However, I decided to write up a this quick introduction to get you started creating something awesome straight away! I plan to release a full length tutorial on how to realistically composite the fireworks elements we created in my After Effects & Trapcode Particular fireworks tutorial into a moving shot very soon.
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