Maya Clouds

I spent some time experimenting with Maya's fluid containers to create clouds for my sky.

Here are some of the original rendered out images:

Looks pretty and all.
I thought they would be ready to go from here but they had to move too, and that's where things got difficult.

Here's a sample of the full render played out.
It doesn't feel like the clouds seem natural enough - especially since they already look so hyper real.

I composited this in after effects and tried giving it different looks. Here's a few of them:

And here's the last one that I decided to go with for my directed study.  It's much darker, but it blends in well with the other scenes I will be putting together in my final: