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Phredrek
06-09-2006, 12:53 AM
Greetings everyone!

I'm helping my friend create some thick black ugly polluting smoke coming out of those smoke stacks in the image render below. I want a really realistic feel to the smoke and not an obvious 3D particle generated or a couple image planes coming from photoshop brushes look to it.

The two options I was thinking about is using particles (with maya), but I'm afraid that I'm going to waste my time fiddling with options only to get a really generic look. or using actual smoke stock footage (yes this scene will be animated with a bit of camera move). The scene was created in Maya and that's the only 3D package we are using for this. other than that we have Combustion and After Effects at our disposal. I realize that combustion has particles built in but I'm afraid yet again it will look very artificial.

Can anyone recomend a direction we should take?
For example if there is a solid maya smoke tutorial or a good resource for thick black smoke stock footage?

all of your help is greatly apreciated !
thanks and enjoy


Frederic & Ian
aeres
06-09-2006, 07:14 AM
If you are going for a realistic look and you're not doing any big camera moves, then I'd say go for live action footage. You might havta tweak it abit, but it beats spending hours fiddling in Maya.

Down side is that you have no control over the animation of the smoke.
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