Steam and Smoke (Visual Effects)

Compositing steam animation onto footage in After Effects.

Tracking path for Smoke animation to follow the ship's funnel.

The emphasis in this shot was to be on the ship itself and so I debated whether to have steam coming from the steam engine's funnel. Because the length of the shot is so short, I felt it may disturb the audience's view of the ship as the camera pans up and focuses on the ship. I ended up rendering steam coming only from the cylinders of the steam engine so that I could marry it up with the shot before by establishing she's looking out at the ship from the station platform.