Advanced Particles 2 – Demon Fire Trail

On February 17, 2022

Release date:2022, February

Author:CG Circuit

Skill level:Intermediate

Language:English

Exercise files:Yes

Course Description
Note: Several lessons are available for free and I encourage you to check them out.

Welcome to Advanced Particles series: Demon Fire Trails.

Some of the things you will learn with this course are going to be:

How to animate a static geometry along a curve, without relying on constraint networks
How to setup particle and smoke simulations and optimize them for faster results
Advanced Techniques for Particle advection
Creating deformations post-simulation with with VEX.

Along the way I prepared different demo videos with examples, explaining certain techniques before we implement them in our actual project. These are marked with a “DEMO” in front of the title of the lesson.

In the rendering section we learn how to:

Render particles as smoke with Mantra, and set up different custom passes.
Create and render volumetric lights and also set up utility passes.

In the Nuke section we bring everything together to achieve the final look.
Here I share some of my favorite nodes and techniques, and also cover workflows regarding
the very powerful DEEP compositing system.

Aside from the skull geometry which you will be provided with we will be creating everything from scratch.

Watch online or Download for Free

01 – Overview
02 – Geo and Curve setup
03 – primuv
04 – XYZDist
05 – Animate along curve
06 – Camera and refine animation
07 – UP vector
08 – Optimize source
09 – Body smoke setup
11 – Adding velocity
12 – Microsolvers
13 – POP Setup
14 – Dot Product
15 – Optimize simulation
16 – Advection
17 – Advect by gradient volume
18 – Adding to advection
19 – Adjust smoke
20 – Matrix rotation
21 – Applying rotation
22 – Scaling rotation
23 – Scale along curve
24 – Head source
25 – Motion setup
26 – Smoke setip
27 – Adjust smoke
28 – Smoke collision
29 – Particles advection
30 – Volumesample
31 – Particle collision
32 – Fix stepping
33 – Face particles
34 – Merge everything
35 – OCIO
36 – Volume rasterize
37 – Increase Quality
38 – Adjust density
39 – Scatter volume
40 – image planes
41 – Volumetric lights
42 – Sparks
43 – Mask utility
44 – Camera Export
45 – Nuke setup
46 – Depth of field
47 – Emission
48 – Volumetric Pass
49 – Sparks
50 – final Adjustments
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