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After Effects fire
by William Chubb on Dec 18, 2008 at 10:01:08 am

Hi

I'm new to after effects, how do you create realistic looking fire like this?

http://www.planetaep.com/After_Effects_Graphics/Hellfire.html

I've followed the tutorial here http://library.creativecow.net/articles/chao_joe/fire.php
but the results look very false and generated and not very organic!

Thanks for your help

Will

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Re: After Effects fire
by Steve Renard on Dec 18, 2008 at 4:17:41 pm

Hi Will,

If you're new to AE creating fire like that will be a bit project, but I'd suggest starting with the Trapcode Particular plugin, using smokelets for your particles, and messing with the color to get the look right. Then use the velocity and physics settings to adjust for the look you want in terms of the motion. You could also try some of the presets that they package along with it, and use those as a starting point.

Good luck!
Steve

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Re: After Effects fire
by Trent Armstrong on Dec 18, 2008 at 4:18:43 pm

http://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2008/12/544/

Check out that free project from Andrew Kramer!

Trent Armstrong - Creative Cow Leader
http://www.dallasaeug.com

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Re: After Effects fire
by Matthew Woods on Dec 18, 2008 at 4:30:50 pm

I suspect their project brings in some footage that was not generated in After Effects. My favorite fire effects that I have made in After Effects came from shooting real fire. The real thing looks much better than anything computer generated. Get a camera (I got some great results just using a DV camera), and some green or blue colored paper (I have found large origami paper works great). Suspend the paper from a bent coat hanger or some other metal rod with clothes pins. Shoot against a black backdrop and key out the green paper with Keylight, set the blend mode on your flame layer to "add" to get rid of the black backdrop. You can get some great flame footage that you can scale distort and use for a number of projects. You can also use the green paper as a matte to burn up any image... the Bonanza effect. Plus its fun to play with fire, although do be careful and keep other flamables away from your set up, and keep a fire extinguisher handy.

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Re: After Effects fire
by david bogie on Dec 18, 2008 at 5:48:55 pm

Let your inner pyro freak fly.
Shoot it.
More fun, more control.

bogiesan

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Re: After Effects fire
by Ingemar Björling on Dec 18, 2008 at 9:41:16 pm

For CG fire and much more, go for Particle Illusion by Wondertouch.
http://wondertouch.com/

Renderwise Ingemar Bjorling
Photography & 3D graphics illustration and education
Stockholm Sweden
www.renderwise.com

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Re: After Effects fire
by William Chubb on Dec 20, 2008 at 2:20:25 pm

Thanks for all your help, I downloaded the project and it’s made using the after effects particle system with some vector blur, turbulent displace and glow.

So I didn’t need to get particular or set file to myself :)

Thanks again

will

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