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Animating smoke, fire, explosions, water

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By eugeneromero | Tuesday, September 21, 2004 at 2:04pm

eugeneromero

Does anyone know of any tutorials or formulas on how to animate fire, smoke, explosions, etc? It's pretty difficult.

Tue, 09/21/2004 - 4:32pm

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bluehickey

I used to be in the efx departments at Warner Bros and Dreamworks and I have accumulated 2 binders full of reference and "how to's" from many features. Unfortunately I scanned in and posted images from them in the past here on the boards, but that was over a year ago, and when the boards got hacked into, they went with it.

Email me and we can talk about possibly sending you some photocopies or something:

ryan@starwarsspoofs.com

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Tue, 09/21/2004 - 6:02pm

(Reply to #2) #3

eugeneromero

That's cool. Thanks for replying.

Wed, 09/22/2004 - 4:53am

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rupertpiston

Also, there are some brief explanations on this stuff in Tony White's The Animator's Workbook. Not terribly explanatory, but there is a bit in there. His discussion of rain is what made the most sense to me, though I haven't given it a shot yet.

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Wed, 09/22/2004 - 5:26am

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GilRuiz1

Well, I've got a pretty good tutorial on the physics of explosions and how to animate them over on my physics-for-animators site. The tutorials are at:

http://hometown.aol.com/gilruiz1/physics/tutorials.htm

Hope it helps!

Wed, 09/22/2004 - 7:59am

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eugeneromero

Awesome! Thank you so much.

Fri, 09/24/2004 - 8:10pm

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phacker

Blue has uploaded many samples of just these things a couple of times, and they keep getting lost. AWN should come up with a tutorial section. I saved them, put I think the ball is in AWN's court now. Put up a tutorial section!!!

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Sat, 09/25/2004 - 7:48am

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eric pugh

tutorial area

Phacker's got my vote. Having an area to post tutorial links is a great idea.

Sat, 09/25/2004 - 9:56am

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EustaceScrubb

Harold Whitaker's and John Halas's book "Timing for Animation" (Focal Press) has some basic information on drawing EFX animation like fire , smoke, water splashes , explosions.

Here's a review that was on AWN :

http://mag.awn.com/index.php?article_no=1446