animating smoke?

[Jonathan Pitzer]

It is very easy to make animated smoke using fractal noise on a layer and then changing the blending mode. I believe that there is a tutorial on this in the cow but I could be wrong. It is pretty easy though, just play around with it.

[Leesa Dean]

Thanks. I’ll check it out. I also downloaded the delirium plugin demo from digieffects, which looks pretty good.

[Michael Duff]

if it’s not realistic enough for you have you considered using real footage of smoke? You could purchase stock footage or shoot some smoke against a black background and then use a transfer mode to composite it.

will render faster too….

just a thought…..

[Leesa Dean]

Thanks. That’s a great idea!

[Jonathan Pitzer]

If you are going to consider that route, this site has several versions shot against a green screen for you.

https://www.detonationfilms.com/free_stuff.htm

However, making it yourself gives you much more control over it.

[Leesa Dean]

wow, thanks! that site looks awesome.