Create a Fish Bowl Filling with Refractive Water

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.

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