Candle Flame

[Todd Kopriva]

Sorry, but I have to ask: Why are you not using footage of a candle flame—either shot yourself or gotten from a stock footage library?

There’s a thread from a few days ago that is about flames:

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/957864

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[Vitor Teixeira]

Because i was trying to create it in Maya, through Fluids but it´s not an easy job.
So i thought maybe there´s a plugin that can create fire in AE or in Nuke.

[Michael Szalapski]

It depends on how realistic you want it.
You can do it in AE using a particle effect such as Particular or a 3rd party program such as Wondertouch’s ParticleIllusion, Maya, Cinema 4d, etc.
Or I suppose you could take a photo of a candle flame and with some clever distortion effects and scaling make it look animated.

But it would be much easier to composite actual footage of a candle’s flame into your scene in AE.

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[Vitor Teixeira]

I´m using Tinderbox 4