Put Out Realistic Candle Smoke

Put Out Realistic Candle Smoke

on Jun 15th 2010 with 29 comments
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In this tutorial we’ll be going into Tracode Particular’s settings to generate a smoke like result that has a realistic movement wisping through the air. There are lots of Particular tutorials available, but this guy has some really practical uses.

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  • http://www.vfxrider.com chandan kumar

    Wrong illustration! This kind of smoke comes when the candle is turned off. However the technique is good.

  • Chris

    what is here realistic?
    nice tut, but wrong title, like chandan said.

    • http://www.tripodbg.com Stefan
      Author

      Maybe not realistic, but a good starting point to tweak it and create something realistic :)

  • http://www.youtube.com/ianhpiratao IANH – BR

    its a good alternative for people dont like to buy some smoke footage.

  • http://www.filmmaking.com.br Guilherme Rambo

    You have to stop putting the word “realistic” on every title…

    • Jan Waage

      Nitpicky whiners, it looks sweet , so shuddahellup.

    • dude

      yeah nitpicker

  • Lyndon

    You all gonna critique his accent next, lol.

    Final result: Title worded wrong w/ an effect that will convince anyone if its animated properly at the right distance.

    Good job man :)

  • Chris

    People need to relax on the instant criticizing for stupid pointless shit.

    The example might not be the most realistic composition, but as Lyndon said, use this effect in the right way, and compose it properly in the scene and i’m sure you wont be able to make a more realistic effect.

  • http://www.webguide4u.com WebGuide4U

    realistic is wrong title assigned. thanks for the tut and what a coincident i have complied the lists of smoke photoshop brushes hope it might be useful one for the readers.
    http://www.webguide4u.com/smoke-photoshop-brushes/

  • dim0w

    So…I think that looks nice and it’s not necessary to pay attention of one title…The most important thing is experience :)

  • Mike

    I think this is truly amazing and I can’t wait to see what I can do with this. It’s quite lovely in its effect.

  • Michael

    yes it’s not realistic that the smoke is coming when the flame is still there, but the effect (the smoke) is realistic. The timing is just bad. You can’t get angry at people for pointing out that it is not realistic, it’s not, or at least the time that it is used isn’t.

    That being said, i love the effect, and wil probably use it. there are a few things that could be altered like maybe lowering the life of particles, amongst other things.

    All and all a very PRACTICAL effect, that I am glad there is a tutorial for.

  • http://517172 subbareddy

    your tutorials is very nice ………….

  • http://- Heey

    This is one of the good tutorials of AETuts+. The presentations may be not the best but what the tutorial is about, the content, is of really good quality! Keep up the amazing work. :)

  • slize

    Nice tut dude. Keep it up

    • http://www.tripodbg.com Stefan
      Author

      Thanks man :) By the way are you slize the CS movie maker from style-productions? :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/SimonBaeg Simon Baeg

    guys its a good tutorial..
    it might look fake from close up but from far away it can look quite realistic with few minor adjustments.

    • Takeshi

      No, it won’t! The smoke will get bigger and brighter, so to say it will distract the audience through the composition…
      it should be lowered the opacity and ther should be no flame. period

    • http://www.facebook.com/SimonBaeg Simon Baeg

      lol mate try doing it in a footage before commenting.
      did you not see the “few minor adjustments” part?

  • http://www.sambbamedia.blogspot.com Fernando de Souza

    Is it possible to make that effect using the older versions of Trapcode Particular ?

    Thanks!

  • http://www.tripodbg.com Stefoto
    Author

    Yes it’s possbile since we don’t use any of the new features in this tutorial.

  • http://www.wigglemedia.in HARBINDER

    that looks nice and we should not comment on that, if you knew that(who are criticizing ) ,why you don’t make like this……good tuts

  • Ant Gray

    A bit edgy, but may be applicable in many cases.

  • http://www.youtube.com/goranification Goran

    Where are you from? are you from bolivia? or mexico??

  • http://motionvalley.blogspot.com ilhamks

    yeah, even though the title is wrong, just look at the essence of the tutorial. that’s the vital part that we should understand.

    nice work mate, keep it up. but be careful with the title next time…it’s a wild world here LOL.

  • http://www.warex3d.com warex

    I think the tecnique its so good for something like a cigarette smoke,

  • http://www.youtube.com/nicolascoucke Nicolas Coucke

    A good tutorial for a beginner with particular like me :)

  • trifco

    Thank you very much for this tutorial! I love it!