Fire Help

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

You’ve got to walk before you can fly. If you’ve only been using AE for a week, you’re asking a lot – saw your other post about blood too.

When you get down to it, AE has no native way of maiking either realistic fire or blood. The best solution I;ve seen for blood yet was from a product at VideoCopilot.net called “action movie essentials” which included blood spurts – these are filmed elements, not CGI. the package which includes a lot pf cool stuff costs about $50.

Also for fire, Artbeats has a DVD full of fire elements. Again, filmed elements always look better than fake. But if that’s not an option, you can go the faster rout that has semi- to realistic fire effects, such as the stand alone application particleIllusion (www.wondertouch.com) or trapcode particular (AE plug-in). My money is on particleIllusion, though Trapcode particular can produce really nice stuff too. There are differences between the programs, and different places you would use them.

But again, if you’ve only been using AE for a week, consider going through the free tutorials here and get comfortable with the program before you get crazy on the effects.

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Aharon Rabinowitz
arabinowitz(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
http://www.allbetsareoff.com

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https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=111087911

[Mike Clasby]

Fire, tuts and tips on compositiong there too.

https://www.detonationfilms.com/UnitK-8.html

There are more pages and freebies on the detonation site.