Need help with souls

[alphatron]

Your best bet would probably be hardware particle rendering and adding a glow and motion blur in a compositing application. The movement of the particles could either be handled by fields such as vortex, or be animated along a path. You could set a ramp to the particles color and life for the rainbow color seen in the picture.

I wouldn't be able to give you any specifics as I've never attempted anything similar my self.

Good luck!

[alphatron]

I'm wondering if Maya 4.5's new fluid effects would be able to help you out. Maybe someone here can add something else?

[flicker-free]

thanks, alphatron. I'll mess around with your suggestions. I'm sad that 63 people have viewed this post, but they you're the only one nice enough to reply.

[alphatron]

Here's an idea:
The bright head of the soul could be a sphere that is also a particle emmiter, and the sphere can be a rigid body that is affected by fields like wind and stuff so it drags the emitting particles behind it, and you can put a glow on the sphere so it looks like a core.

Maybe the reason noone has responded is because you don't have an avatar.

[Per-Anders]

what about using a soft body tube (without goal) as the tail? attached to your light/spehere... i think using a light with a good halo on it should do the trick for the head... then use a gradient attatched to the incidence angle for the transparency (i.e. fresnel) and some gradient remapped noise on a global texture position for the colours of the tail... might work with a bit of tweaking... maybe use glow and hide original object too for the tail

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