Need Help Animating Non-Solids

mexifry · May 11, 2009 06:14 AM

I'm at a brick wall as an animator with animating things that are non-solid, I.E. Smoke, water, fire, explosions, etc.
I have no idea where to start or how to even go about attempting it and it makes the majority of my work look worse because I'm so limited.
Any suggestions or tutorials will help greatly,

Thanks!

Mexifry

rtil · May 11, 2009 06:29 AM

are you saying that you're interested in getting into effects animation, or that you have trouble with objects that deal with squash and stretch in general. if that's the case, i'd start with the bouncing ball test. even if you've done it in the past before, going back to it after a while you may be surprised how hard it kicks your ass. but if you're more interested in effects.. each one has its own unique attributes. a good film to look at would be lilo & stitch - it has a lot of all 3 that you mentioned and if you can watch it in something like quicktime where you can use the arrow keys to go through frames you can learn a lot

ZekeySpaceyLizard · May 11, 2009 11:22 AM

mexifry · May 11, 2009 02:17 PM

Quote from: Zekeya few references

fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQwOc0uzTTw

water and smoke and clouds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD8HDta7Z_4

fire and smoke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Ca_edg6RE

lava goo non-solids slime gelatin water and wind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gZbMOq_Ge8

fire lava and explosions smoke and wind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGkRQgk0s5U

wind gelatinous masses
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZwCg0-9zzs

gelatinous mass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiBu6R_d51E

slime liquid smoke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PLQ1XfaTuU

explosions and fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eR8yaOepkg

hope those help in some way

These actually help greatly.

Thank you.

thebackalleys

Need Help Animating Non-Solids

mexifry

rtil

ZekeySpaceyLizard

mexifry