Creating Fire and Smoke using Maya Fluid Effects
In this Maya tutorial, we will learn how to create fire and smoke with Maya 3D Fluids - Fire and Smoke. Software required: Maya 2013, After Effects CS3.
What you'll learn
In this Maya tutorial, we will learn how to create fire and smoke with Maya 3D Fluids - Fire and Smoke. To make our effect more powerful and realistic we will first understand the science behind these complex fluids and then separately create them in Maya. After this, we will advance to understanding the behavior of fire with smoke and then blend them in Maya. We will be learning several different techniques to produce and control the behavior of fluids by creating fluids from geometry and particles system. We will influence fluids with different fields to create believable effects. We will learn simple techniques to tackle complex effects for easy understanding and learning. At the end of this Maya training course you will be ready to burn out anything with Maya. Software required: Maya 2013, After Effects CS3.
Table of contents
- Exploring the Concept of the Burning House 5m
- Understanding the Science Behind Fire 2m
- Creating Fire Under the Porch 9m
- Continuing with Fire Under the Porch 12m
- Creating Fire Around the Door 15m
- Understanding the Science Behind Smoke 3m
- Creating Our First Bit of Smoke 9m
- Continuing to Create Smoke 4m
- Creating the Falling Flames with Maya Particles 12m
- Blending the Fire and Smoke 3m
- Creating Fire with Smoke 12m
- Using Fluid Presets to Save Time 4m
- Creating the Final Composition 6m
About the author
Pankaj Malik is a Senior Instructor of VFX. He has seven years experience teaching and training students. He loves to explore the ocean of Maya commands and recently updated to the world of Digital Sculpting. He is a modeler, texturing, and lighting artist and a self taught dynamics artist. He is an Autodesk Certified Professional of Maya and 3ds Max and Adobe Certified Associate in Photoshop. He has made five short 3D commercial films and two VFX movies. He believes in great knowledge sharing a... more