How to Create A Fire Effect

vootie · Senior Site Admin Joined: Nov 12, 2001 Posts: 2252

This is a thread devoted to the topic of creating a fire effect. Feel free to add your own techniques, or link to ones on other sites.
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Athyrius · Forum lord Joined: Jul 12, 2003 Posts: 239

This is very cool. If anyone wants more particulars and details refer to: http://graphics.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1833

I just got back in from dealing with umpteen models, videographers, photographers, businesstypes, gofers, tailors, sound set ups and general madness - and will be dealing with it the rest of the week at the very least, but I WILL post a tute here on my fire - promise.

vootie · Senior Site Admin Joined: Nov 12, 2001 Posts: 2252

This short tutorial on the Absolute Cross site can get the job done in a hurry.

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vootie · Senior Site Admin Joined: Nov 12, 2001 Posts: 2252

Author Greg says: "This sequence employs a great, hidden, feature of Liquify that allows you to save and load a distortion mesh. With this enhancement Liquify becomes a much more functional distortion tool that offers multiple levels of control that would not be available without it."

View the tutorial.

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TeCetera · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 5:22 am Post subject:

OOO...now that one I like!
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1olddawg · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 4:05 pm Post subject:

WoW

What a fantastic effect and tutorial.
'Vootie' I honestly don't know how you find some of these tuts, whatever you do, please don't stop. Many thanks
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TeCetera · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:53 pm Post subject:

Nice tutorial but my results aren't coming close to the original. /me scratches head

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Eftelibra · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 9:07 am Post subject:

Stop scratching your head - OldDawg's getting jealous.

So, come on, show us your version.

gerbick · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 9:08 am Post subject:

I'm curious to see what you guys come up with via these tutorials.

My results from the last tutorial wasn't actually bad.
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TeCetera · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 6:28 pm Post subject:

Ugh. Mine wasn't bad but nothing like the authors. Okay I'll post it. Tried reworking it but my "tweaks" results weren't what I wanted but here it is. I'm going to have to work with this one some more to get it right I'm thinking.

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Eftelibra · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 6:13 am Post subject:

WOW - well I think that's brilliant. It looks hotter than the original, perhaps because the flames are thicker. The one with the finer typeface looks like a flickering type of flame. This one looks blazing hot. Its an excellent first attempt.

1olddawg · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 3:58 pm Post subject:

Tecetera I agree with Eftelibra, with the heavier font the heavier fire looks really good. I think you did a great job

....drats I forgot my stick and bag of marshmallows

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TeCetera · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 8:05 pm Post subject:

Thanks you two. I wasn't sure about it since the lettering shows thru too clearly, imo.

What I really liked about his was the darker edges to some of the flames. Ah well practice makes perfect they say.

I'll go try vooties first find sometime this wwke and post results. Come on Eftelibra and 1olddawg give the tutes a try and see what you get.

Hopefully Athyrius's workload slows down enough for him/her? to post that promised tutorial.
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TeCetera · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 6:00 pm Post subject:

Hey found a link on the other forum I spend alot of time on. That lead me to this tutorial. http://www.good-tutorials.com/track/7999

As an addendum to this tute. I didn't use the difference clouds filter quite as many times as suggested, only about 5 or 6 rather than 20. I then duplicated my layer and ran difference clouds on it once. Then changed the new layer's mode to Overlay.

Next go click on your original layer, and go to Layer, New Adjustment layer, Hue/Saturation and using these settings.

You may wish to tweak them according to your own color preferences.

This is the result I got from it. Hope you like it.

Nice chemical fire, eh?
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Athyrius · Forum lord Joined: Jul 12, 2003 Posts: 239