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  • displacing smoke

    Posted by Saul Herckis on August 8, 2008 at 1:28 am

    Hey…anyone have any good ideas how I could displace a layer of “smoke” as if something was passing through it. The shot I’m working on is a boot stepping into the foreground. The idea is for the frame to be covered in smoke and for the boot to step through it, hopefully blowing some of the smoke away while it does so.
    thanks in advance.

    Greg Neumayer replied 18 years ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Greg Neumayer

    August 9, 2008 at 12:13 am

    LOL. Dave’s right. You could try an evolving fractal noise, with a moving greyscale boot as your displacement map for your object, but it’s never going to create the eddies and curls you get from the complex fluid simulation from the stock library of ‘God’s-green-earth.’ 🙂

    -Greg

    Antifreeze Design
    https://www.antifreezemotiongraphics.com

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