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The Gnomon Workshop – Art Directing Explosions using Axiom in Houdini

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The Gnomon Workshop – Art Directing Explosions using Axiom in Houdini
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Discover how to create a professional explosion shot in this 7.5-hour workshop with Ganesh Lakshmigandan, Senior FX Technical Director at Weta FX. From analyzing references to completing the final composite, Ganesh walks you through the entire creation process. [Read more…]

Applied Houdini VOLUMES V – EXPLOSIONS

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Applied Houdini VOLUMES V – EXPLOSIONS
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In Volumes V (formerly Dynamics V and VI), we’ll learn to create and control combustion style simulations in the sparse pyro solver, and then take it further by using PDG to run a bunch of wedged sims so that we can work more efficiently. Custom simulation and post-simulation techniques, together with custom shader and lighting strategies, will allow us to create production quality work in ways that out of the box tools just can’t. After some compositing, we’ll end up with a great explosion – but more importantly, the knowledge and confidence to hack solvers and shaders to create all kinds of effects! [Read more…]

Pluralsight – Explosions with Maya and FumeFX

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Pluralsight – Explosions with Maya and FumeFX
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Category: Tutorial


Building explosions is complex and time consuming process. In this course, Explosions with Maya and FumeFX, you will learn how to take a common shot in production, (a helicopter being shot down to the ground) and will concentrate on the main hit in the air, and all the way until it hits the ground and explodes. You will learn many different techniques and emission methods, timing, scale, creating sparks, and rendering it all with the Blackbody shader in Arnold. Finally, you will get more out of your renders in Nuke and comp it all together. After this course, you will have a good understanding on how to approach such a big shot and learn different techniques to create these effects. Software required: Maya 2017, FumeFX4 for Maya, Nuke. [Read more…]

[cg-school.org] VFX Pack (Fire, Smoke, Explosions)

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[cg-school.org] VFX Pack (Fire, Smoke, Explosions)
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VFX pack: fire, smoke, explosions
The collection of video tutorials to create explosions, fire, smoke and other vfx simulations. You will learn how to make shots, smoke traces, simulation of volcano, creating dust below the wheels of moving car. Learn how to quickly generate clouds, make tornadoes, dust storms, nuclear explosions. [Read more…]

Tutsplus – Smoke Fire and Explosions in Adobe After Effects

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Tutsplus – Smoke Fire and Explosions in Adobe After Effects
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In this course, Christopher Kenworthy will show you how easy it is to create smoke, fire, and explosions using Adobe After Effectsùwithout relying on third-party plugins. By learning some simple techniques and built-in filters, youÆll be creating realistic-looking smoke, fire and explosions for your film footage in no time. [Read more…]