Cineversity

This is what I’m trying to make, some cartoon smoke.

https://twitter.com/everfreshdesign/status/1322868721728237568?s=20

It’s made up of a tracer, helix, cloner, volume builder. Every combination I try, I can’t even get close to the example
in the tweet.

Has anyone had any luck making something like this?

Hi joshua.howard,

There are several options. Here is a small little rig to showcase what could be done.

Example
https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share/RuD2XlHyxXaoVBHXGeQthcx0Ky8qaZ6j8Uh3NHmFv1q

The key is here in the PoseMorph

All the best

Ahh, Spline mask! this is very interesting!

As always, thank you Dr.Sassi!

You’re very welcome, joshua.howard.

Splines are certainly the simplest way, like this example
https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share/gBznmjCEbuhcdctj5gYVSUfPyLdaybpMBRpjdsIvchb

With other tools, you get different results, and I used splines here only to fill the base
Example
https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share/fymYxHdbRqY9d5xAOlkY6uxJlQl9NQXENxlm572l3w8

Please have a look here as well:
https://www.cineversity.com/vidplaytut/toon_fx_oceans_ocean_wave

Enjoy