Filmmaker IQ has a novel angle with its latest AE tutorial collection 60 After Effects Weather Tutorials. The collection includes several from Aetuts+ but there’s more to be found.
Here are a few more resources:
- a free excerpt from the book After Effects Studio Techniques byMark Christiansen, Climate: Air, Water, Smoke, Clouds in After Effects 7.0
- AE Portal’s Creating fog in After Effects
- AE Portal posts on water
- VFX Tip #3 – Compositing Fog or Mist from Daniel Broadway
- Rendering Photorealistic Water Droplets – AE Premium by Arie Stavchansky on Aetuts+