Smoke Animation Q&A

Yes, but don’t go there.
Speaking as a uni student of the mid 90s that, on a dare, spammed playboy images to the line printers.
A time when line printing was faster than the actual downloads.
Use your imaginatioin, make your own to fit.

Pretty certain that’s your bag anyway and I could look some up but last look they make massive files with a pixel per character. Impressive but useless here.

A lightbox or transparency notepad may be more useful

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These are really cool smoke effects guys. Love it! Gives me some ideas, as i haven’t done anything in a while. Also reminds me of a silly face with some steam that I did last year, at the risk of making everyone hungry:

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Still can not get it right :frowning: maybe it’s time to abandon this one. [Edit] I’ll try it from a different angle.

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If it is single image stuff only then lob the Felicities here and I’ll have a try.

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I admit I’m not sure yet - there’s something new (and smoke-related) in my “pipeline” I need to try first. Will post here soon!

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Oh yeah, always and forever, try for yourself first.

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Published the thing now without the smoke, just to get rid of it :slight_smile: Next one will be a Star Wars style scene. Wanna do dawn, dusk phases with related highlights and shadows, and all of that with 2 separate suns (but only one moon) :slight_smile:

Morning

Day:

Dusk:

Night:

All with separate highlight and shadow layers. And a motionless Jedi :slight_smile: Was a real &/()%&/( to cut-out on PS, I can tell ya. Well, we’ll see …

Sorry, morning and day are the same shade layers (should have a bit of night-overhang in it), but I’m too tired to search for the correct ones :slight_smile:

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Day shadow sides

Aaaaand the same for the blackest (mid-)night


and such stuff

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Here’s the lazy bugger

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Just a slight blue tint for the light in the morning . Love the Highlight on the figure . Very effective .

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Exactly - a “night overhang”

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Wanna “animate” the river, too. But this is gonna be a huge project - without any real use, but maybe I get an apprenticeship in cartoons one day hahahaha.

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I want to see how you deal with dawn and dusk :slight_smile: i use 90 minutes but it varies depending where you are. There’s a post here somewhere

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Put that on a back brain simmer, maybe just a few shapes/characters on differing transparency timers.

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I’m doing it here :slight_smile:

I did it with the night sky in this here:

just two or three “star layers” and some #DNOW# formula. should be easy with the river, just some waves or something showing up at different times

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Yeah. Much less needed on the river and yes, this new one seems it will take some doing but you have done the hard part of crafting all the puzzle pieces.
The easy part is putting them together.
The next hard part is just the final edge lacquer to hide the seams. Pretty certain you will nail that.

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I made a new thread:

The next hard part is just the final edge lacquer to hide the seams.

Hahaha, got me there. Know what I did? Mid-grey background, hahahaha

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About your river . If you had a Scrolling cloud scape as you obviously now how to do . Have a mirror of that in the river . If you can not cut out the river we can do that for you . If you could show us the Original image square we could pull out the clouds and make a set for scrolling .

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WIll do! Thanks for the kind offer!!!

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