Hey Powerdan,
I’m still downloading the video (dial-up), but it sounds good. This is similar to what I am doing for a music video for the band Overdose Of Hatred. But I have to light whole bodies on fire. For all the band members and there is five of them. So unfortunatley I have to hand track a 3d figure to their boddies to use as an emmiter for the fire. Do you have any tips?
Daniel,
ColdSide Digital
Well Im using 3D Arms (made by Destruct007 and tracked by me) for Fluid emmision in Autodesk’s Maya.
Tips:
For the tracking: I think with a nice tracking (not to be perfect) will work, because you will hide the emmiter surface, and the objetive its to the Fx looks cool with the video.
Most of the work can be done in Compossite, after you get a nice & cool flames in your 3D environment you can fix and get a more cooler look working in compossite software like AfterFx or Fusion, add more transparency or adjust Brightness.
If you are going to use Maya Fluids, dont render with a PRODUCTION QUALITY, the fluids in Maya looks very good in preview quality, Production Quality dont affect the fluids, in my oppinion, to get better fluids you must use fluids Attributes like resolution, Voxel quality etc.
I learn a lot of fluids with Alias (now Autodesk) Fluid DVD and with the David S., Gnomon Fluids DVD’s. if you can get those they can help a lot, also here its David S. (Destruct007) he can help you much more.
if I get more tips during these project I’ll post it here.
–<Daniel>–
New Version, this time its Ver. 4.5, Why? because I dont fix anything in 3D env. I only do some fixes on composite, enjoy.
http://www.myfilehut.com/userfiles/116802/CGtalk/playBall_FluidTest4fixVFx.mov
–<Daniel>–
Thanks for the tips. I’m actually using 3Ds Max 8 and Pheonix 1.5. So it should look good, the only problem is the tracking. I have access to SynthEyes, but iIve never used it before.
Daniel,
ColdSide Digital
Maybe you hould post here:
SUPERPOWERS SIGNUP LIST: Post here those who are looking for partners/teams
that you are looking who can do camera traking. Or have you considered posting a help wanted on the max forum?
BTW good luck with your entry.
-R
New Version 6 of the PlayBall Shot, getting closer to the look that I want 
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http://www.myfilehut.com/userfiles/116802/CGtalk/playBall_FluidTest6VFx.mov
–<Daniel>–
This is an FYI to ALL teams.
ROBERTO’S BULLHORN: SUPERPOWERS DATELINE Three Weeks to go!
Also I Just wanted to check how you all are doing, and i there are any issues or questions please post on the thread i just posted.
-R
Amazing job PD, the last version looks really great. My only nitpick would be the speed, though being a superpower it kinda looks appropiate to it, some kind of slo-mo Blue flame, very nice. My other critic is the reflection in the actor, it looks really strong for the enviroment, in broad dayligth and all. But despite those small details, it’s looking superb:applause:
Hey dan that’s really coming along! It looks liek the flames don’t move up, like the become almost cloth like, do you know what I mean? Like slow moving or something. Lokksing really good tho. keep it up. Comping is coming along too!
NEW VERSION!.
this time version 8.0…
a higher definition fluid this time… well I do a trick, I scale the scene down, so the fluid looks better with near the same resolution its like gett better resolution via cheap way :P. lol
this is almost my final version, I will wait for your allways helpful critics for work it on. If I have the time of course 
hope you like it
http://www.myfilehut.com/userfiles/116802/CGtalk/playBall_FluidTest8VFx.mov
–<Daniel>–
The flames are looking really good. Seemed a little strange that his whole arm was on fire before the puff came up out of his hand. I’ll watch it a few more times and see if it still feels backwards or not. I think the blue flames are perfect. They look really hot.
I too am enthralled by the flames.
Only crit I could add is that looking at the .mov, I noticed that the power burst follows a relativelly steady climb, somewhat like this:
But looking at the actor (especialy his hands) I couldn´t help notice that there´s sort of a spike in his outburst, something more like this:
Adding this initial spike to the intensity/radius of the flames would probably make it look more expressive, IMHO.
Just my 2 cents 
Here is my final Version (for these Deadline, I will keep working on it ).
FxWars_Daniel_Lezama_TheBrute.mov (7 Mgs).
Thanks to all you guys for your critics and Tips, I do a special mention in the credits (sorry if I omitted somebody).
Good Luck to everyone in these challenge
–<Daniel>–
sorry no time to fix my final shot… so this is my final version.
here is a mirror for the final version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7yhIszJCH8
I will try to fix the issue for the downloadable version.
thanks again for your time.
–<Daniel>–