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VIDEO TUTORIAL - Oil Smoke, Maya fluidFx and Fusion Compositing

We look at creating a complete oil smoke effect from beginning to end. Using Maya fluids and then lighting in maya, and compositing using Fusion (but will work with any compositing package).

Watch the finished quicktime in 640 480 h264 codec.

oilsmoke_quicktime

Here is the movie tutorial. Its pretty big. 211 megs quicktime h264 and goes for nearly 2 hours.

oilsmoke_video tutorial

The finished scene. It is the full size grid, so you could play it thru and set the initial state at frame 239. (then set start frame of the fluid to 239 also) or You will need to reduce the size in z to tweak the effect then put it back again to set the initial state as before.

oilsmoke scene. maya 2008 ma file (edit in text editor for changing to older versions of maya

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