bad weather - After Effects vs 3ds max

[LaBelette]

Hello,

 

I have to make an animation of a car with a camera path around it in a bad stormy weather, with clouds and rain.

I would like to have your opinion of what would be the easiest / quickest way to make it : max then integrate in A.E for the clouds and rain? or all in max?

 

thanks

[Tommy L]

Thats a very difficult project. How good are your Max skills? And what elements are you going to try an make? And whats the background to be?

[Scott Schroeder]

Personally, I'd do all of the weather effects in After Effects.

 

However if you wish to the rain in max with particle flow, our friend Allan McKay has provided you with over 100 presets for particle flow including a whole bunch that involve rain. You can grab/view them here: http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/garyd/over_100_free_particle_flow_presets

 

I'd still do the clouds in After Effects no matter what.

[LaBelette]

Yep, I am expecting few difficulties,

the presets are very interesting, there is a lot of stuff!

as I am more confortable with max, I will start from there,

thanks for your input

[Nicolai Bongard]

If you are using vray, clouds can be done with the vray fog, and some noise and/or smoke maps controlling the density, but there is a lot of tweaking involved.