Smoke Effect

One of the key aspects that make up the character of "Crimson" in our short film is his ability to use unsupported flight to travel between different locations without being detected to easily by the everyday person. His fantastical abilities were inspirations we drew from after looking at the way the "Death Eaters" in the Harry Potter series fly through unsupported flight as smoke particles through the air. For our antagonist villain helper, Alex and I wanted to replicate this effect as much as we could to the method used by the Death Eaters. In order to make this effect, I had to use modelling and animating software packages such as Autodesk Maya to create the smoke itself before importing it all into Sony Vegas.

Whilst I have some experience using Autodesk Maya with similar projects in the past, it was an incredible challenge to even be able to create this effect from scratch. The results of this effect so far look great and will hopefully work well when imported into the footage for our short film.

The video clip below shows an exemplar render I made in Maya based on the screenshots in the slideshow.