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inhaled FOG effect
I’m looking for an effect that will look like magic-dust (similar to smoke) is slowly moving in the air, and then, inhaled into a character’s nose.
My cartoon-imagination envisions something like the scooby-doo cartoons, when the would smell a pie or something….but more ‘real’.
I was trying some things like a particle effect through a warp filter, but I really couldn’t get the control I wanted for each particular inhale…or it just didn’t seem convincing enough.Any thoughts or recommendations would be great
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Right on! Thanks so much for the thoughts. You are heading me in the right direction! (i guess I hadn’t really thought ‘reverse’ yet) …but perhaps I should be a little more specific:
I want to do 3 inhales; and in-between each inhale, the fog should go back to it’s “floating-right-by-the nose” action …..I tried to use two layers and a feathered mask to sort-of blend the two, but It seems that the fluid motion is what makes or breaks the effect; and they just don’t seem to be part of the same “air”.
I did a track on the nose, and that’s not really a problem because he only moves a little bit when he sniffs, but I really want fluidity in the motion of the fog floating by; and then inhaled, and then back to floating by again.Would you suggest doing two emitters in reverse–one to go by the nose and the other to go in the nose when inhales happen?
I’ll probably give that a try….I’m also looking into Blender’s particle simulations.
Any more help is definitely appreciated. Thanks you so much.
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