I need some great FumeFX Tutorials

#1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNMfEyFFNHw I’m refrencing to these effects right here. I need tutorials on how to make effects just like these.

Any suggestions?

#2

I think one of the best sources I have found so far is Allan Mckay’s FumeFX tutorial series. I have worked through the FumeFx 2 core fundamentals series and think they are great.

A lot of the things you see in his videos are more knowledge to use rather than recreating shots. He covers a lot of the techniques used in the video you linked such as instancing the same cached sim to do multiple explosions.

He has sample videos on his site so have a look and see if they are any good for you.

www.vfxsolution.com

Another site I only found out about today is

www.kalicola.blogspot.com

I haven’t looked through it much but it seems quite useful.

Hopefully this will be of some use to you.

#3

You have no idea how much you people help with out on this stuff. I’ll check them out, thank you.

#4

You can also check out my vimeo account, I sometimes upload sample file there:
http://www.vimeo.com/user655273

#5

I just checked out some of your videos, the one’s I have seen so far are great you do excellent work.
I’m pretty much just starting learning myself so I’m a long way off of what you are producing but it’s good to have something to aspire to.

Did you end up doing a tutorial for the Energy trails video? I saw that effect on the Enter the Stronghold video and loved it.

#6

Depending on what you’re trying to do, this website

http://community.ro

has a toolbar on the left with some pretty good tutorials.

It lacks EXPLANATION but if you want to get something done, this will tell you what numbers go where. It doesn’t say things like “If you put 30 here, this will happen and why” but like I said, it will say the right combination to make bombs and stuff.

#7

The simplest tutorial around for fumeFX, I will give it to you right now :slight_smile:

FumeFX tutorial:
You need a lot of time, patience, and a big hard drive.
there you go :slight_smile:

on a serious note. many of the effets you see done with FumeFX can be done in a
multitude of different ways and you will get practically the same results.
Take my last video for example. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqeX2EegAHk
all done with the same main concept of rapidly growing geometry. but can get the same exact result using particles, or simple sources if you know what your doing.

If your looking to make particle videos like mathias does, then start with a simple source
and animate it along a spline, or with your stylus pad like he does if you have one. export velocity. pump the sim into pflow with a fumefollow op. increase the particles by like 10x and render with krakatoa. thats step one.

So good luck man, just remember, Time, Patience, And a big hard drive. :slight_smile:

#8

I know Allan McKay has been mentioned already but I’d really like to point out and put emphasis on his latest, totally awesome DVD http://fumefxtraining.com/. Haven’t had the time to to buy and play with software it’s self but these tutorials are totally totally totally totally awesome.

Cheers!

#9

This is the DVD I have, I have just finished these a couple of days ago and was really pleased with how much I picked up watching it.

Oh and tool2heal you are definitely not kidding about the big hard drive :eek:, that video is really cool. My first attempt after finishing the DVD was a mushroom cloud but didn’t end up with enough expansion, it just looked like a small explosions with a big flame.

#10

I’m looking for a tutorial that is able to make photorealistic explosions, though. I am already able to create basic explosions such as this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYBf3tyQc7E

I’m looking for http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izKMqINXE-w&feature=relmfu Some real nice tutorials. I don’t care if they cost money. Thanks.

#11

Here’s how I see it, having taken two of Allan’s courses. FumeFX for the fire; Afterburn for the explosion; and then a Allan-not-much-advertised product, RealFlow, for the fluids.

#12

I can vouch that Allan does know exactly what he’s doing. He will show you the basic way it looks and then modify almost everything. I suggest drinking coffee while watching his tutorials, he gives plenty of information in a quick manner. Perhaps take notes or have a laptop in front of you to follow along. I have that DVD as well, obviously- and he sure is great.

#13

I have nothing but the highest respect and admiration for Allan. In no way was I intending to indicate anything but that. Allan has tutorials and DVDs in both Fume and Afterburn. I have them. I just suggested that fluids could be developed using RealFlow.

#14

Well, alright, I’ll look more into Allan’s Tutorials. Thank you for the advice.

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