{"id":62392,"date":"2015-09-01T11:57:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T16:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=62392"},"modified":"2015-09-01T11:57:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T16:57:56","slug":"fire-vfx-breakdown-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/fire-vfx-breakdown-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Boom, Crackle, Pop! 10 Impressive Fire VFX Breakdown Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actual fire can prove a safety nightmare on set and simulated fire is difficult to create. In this post, we’ve rounded up a few examples of films and videos that got it right in post, complete with impressive VFX fire breakdowns showing how they pulled it off.<\/h2>\n

Over the last few years, post-production tools have become increasingly more\u00a0sophisticated\u00a0in the creation of\u00a0realistic fire\u00a0VFX<\/strong>. Third-party plugins for After Effects<\/strong> (including Trapcode\u00a0Particular<\/a>, GenArts’s\u00a0Monsters GT<\/a>\u00a0and Phenomena<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0DigiEffects)\u00a0make\u00a0it accessible for motion designers and video editors to incorporate photo-realistic fire effects into video projects. Advanced users are going even deeper with simulators and render engines like FumeFX<\/a>\u00a0in 3DsMax and Maya, TurbulenceFD<\/a> in Cinema4D, and\u00a0Cycles<\/a> in Blender to model\u00a0physics-based smoke, explosions and fire VFX<\/strong>\u00a0with advanced refinement.<\/p>\n

The following impressive VFX fire breakdown videos<\/strong> demonstrate what’s possible when these tools end up in the capable hands of pro motion designers and VFX\u00a0artists.<\/p>\n

Project S.E.R.A.<\/h3>\n

Two angles of an exploding building for sci-fi web series Project S.E.R.A<\/a><\/em>. A host of post-production\u00a0tools were\u00a0utilized\u00a0to create this fire and explosion effect<\/strong> in two weeks:\u00a03ds Max, Thinking Particles, FumeFX, Vray and Nuke.<\/p>\n