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Fiery atmosphere – how to?
I want to create a scene from ‘hell’ where the atmosphere is fiery, almost like when you look through a flame, distorted – I guess the HAZE effect in the summer on the road might be the best way to describe it – the air is not necessarily ‘on fire’ but distorted like what happens in a fire. Any ideaS?
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Here’s a Community Help search for ‘heat haze’ that brings up plenty of answers. Many of them are variations on the theme of 1) creating a noise layer and 2) using that as a the control layer for an instance of the Displacement Map effect.
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It might work also to take one of those haze ideas… but add to it.
I’d precomp my footage, apply the haze to the precomp, then go INTO the precomp, add a reddish-orange (fire/hell?) colored solid over top, turn the opacity to maybe 10-30, switch to additive transfer mode, and maybe (if you dont want the main shot colorized) mask off w/ subtract below the ‘horizon’ level (don’t forget to feather it).
That should give you your ‘hell’ish atmosphere.
Could also add an adjustment layer with a glow effect to kind of make it “pop” out at you and wrap around objects.
Good luck, hope this helps!
Show us the final when you get it doen 🙂
-Jeremy
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