“Practical Example Of Lighting A Man On Fire.” If this wasn’t Allan McKay, one would find some of the lessons of this DVD worrisome. But it is Mr. McKay and he is well known for sharing his combustion-related skills with other CG artists. The new Fume FX: Advanced DVD is a follow up to the Fume FX: Essentials, and is aimed at mastering fluids, and utilizing scripting and compositing, as well as many advanced techniques and methods for creating realistic smoke, dust, fire, explosions and many other visual effects. The DVD is 8x as big, twice the resolution of the Essentials one. It focuses on content ranging from initial pre-conceptual planning and building scripts to automate tasks, through to rendering passes and building complicated composites of all of your fluids while working with actual shots. In the author’s own words “… [this] is by far the best (both quality and training content) DVD I’ve ever put together!” Read the details and check out some sample videos at AllanMcKay.com. The physical DVD should be available shortly from Turbo Squid.
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