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Subject: How do I make fire look like it's flickering.


Ravyns ( ) posted Sun, 02 December 2012 at 6:58 PM · edited Mon, 11 November 2024 at 3:10 AM

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For some unknown reason I like doing the night scenes with the lanterns, candles etc.. I'm finally beginning to understand (hopefully) the lighting. Is there a way to give the impression that the flame is flickering. Or a tut you could point me to.   This is where I'm stuck at with this.

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skiwillgee ( ) posted Sun, 02 December 2012 at 9:52 PM

That may be difficult to convey since flickering is a change of light value over time.  Unless it is animated you are constrained to a single moment in time.

That said,  could you do something to soften that hard line shadow.  A flame is emitting light from its entire visible surface and not a a singular point.

You could try using some sort of gel with the light source.  It will be difficult, indeed.


skiwillgee ( ) posted Sun, 02 December 2012 at 9:54 PM

Consider turning off cast shadow on the object that is causing the shadow as an experiment.  I really like the lighting along the book tops to the left.


Ravyns ( ) posted Mon, 03 December 2012 at 8:47 PM

Thanks Much skiwillgee.

I was thinking that a candle might cast a flickering shadow so I did a test with a candle in the kitchen.  As long as there's no air to move the flame it looks pretty much like the lighting in the image.  Guess I was thinking sort of wrong. LOL . It did make hard shadows, a little sharper then the image ones, so I guess I'll just leave this alone.  

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skiwillgee ( ) posted Tue, 04 December 2012 at 3:22 PM

Kudos for you to be thorough enough to light a candle and observe it in the real world.  Observation like that will surely show in your art. 


clay ( ) posted Tue, 04 December 2012 at 4:22 PM

Attached Link: http://www.baument.com/restore/Tutorials/flameon.html

Try this, my fire material isn't suited for candles, but this should work for ya:-)

Clay

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Ravyns ( ) posted Tue, 04 December 2012 at 9:59 PM

Thanks Much for the link Clay.  I discovered right away that your fire didn't work. I use it a lot so it's the first one I tried. I ended up using one of the materials that came with Bryce but it's not showing up very good.  I'll try that tutorial tomorrow. Maybe I'll get lucky & get it right the first time..LOL ..

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