Turning Myself Into a Smoke Dude // TRAIN BRAIN

Turning Myself Into a Smoke Dude

The Smoke Dude returns! | AD: Create Stunning Fire, Smoke, and Explosions in Real-time with EmberGen: https://jangafx.com/try ?
In this video I'll be using EmberGen to try and turn myself into a smoke character! I'll be revisiting my Smoke Dude concept from 2017, which was a lot of fun.
00:00 Revisiting the Smoke Dude
00:55 Getting inspired in EmberGen
02:51 Recording my own mocap
04:25 Polishing the mocap in Blender
06:15 Making the Smoke Dude in EmberGen
09:40 Shading and lighting the smoke in Blender
12:13 Watching the preview render
12:57 Making a more realistic environment
15:11 Final result
15:56 My thoughts on EmberGen
16:25 Thanks for watching!

Polyfjord

My name is Asbjørn, I'm a digital artist from Norway. My pipeline currently consist primarily of Blender, DaVinci Resolve and Soundly, and I enjoy exploring workflows that use open source, free and/or freemium software. Since the summer of 2021 I've been...

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