Learn This Trick Before You Animate FIRE

in this lesson I break down how to animate fire / flames.
Consider supporting the production of these videos on Patreon:

Download flash SOURCE FILES and check out EXCLUSIVE TUTORIALS on my website:

Featured music:
Future Skyline - Fallen Hero:

Burn Water - Hide:

Bob Bradley - World of Dreams:

Brushes used:

Schlierien optics video mentioned:

_______________________

Equipment Recommendations (Amazon affiliate links)

________________________

Commissions page (for hiring and business enquiries):
I'm an award winning film maker, professional animator and creative consultant

MY PLAYLISTS TO WATCH:

About the channel:

[gulfgiggleanimations]

How to animate fire
Step 1: Get a reference, you can get a picture, or gif, but a real life reference is usually the best for understanding how anything looks. It’s easy! Just set your house on fire!
Step 2: Now that your house is on fire, be sure to animate quickly before you pass out from smoke inhalation.
Step 3: Just as everything is about to go dark, if you haven’t already fire proofed your computer, then be sure to save your animation to something online, like cloud storage, or through an email.
Step 4: When you (hopefully) wake up after being rescued by your local firefighters and find your (hopefully) finished animation. Good job!
Step 5: Spend years in prison for arson after the police investigations discover that you were the cause of the fire.

[biblicallyaccurateangel]

lmao you just explained convection simpler than any science book ive read

[Radtastic]

I respect you a lot more after seeing your brush group being labeled "THICC"
good stuff!

[knightlyluna]

Dude- I'm a student in school at the Art Institute here in KC for animation. We're currently studying the elements and our assignment is to do a comp of fire, smoke, and water. Lemme tell you, man; your concept on elements actually makes it really easy to understand. It was super helpful for my flame animation. Thanks so much.

[pattymaboy]

I love the fire animation at the very beginning. Reminds me of the One Punch Man battle style animations. Very sketchy, but very good at showing raw power. Love it great tutorial

[KaiVertigoh]

Super high-quality information. Thank you very much for the time and effort you put into this, I learned a lot.

[PampdArt]

You migrating to TvPaint really made a difference in your style. I think your animations feel a lot more natural and more YOU, if that makes sense? Also incredible tutorial, really planned out and thoughtful. Thank you! Here's a question for you; do you have any tips on animating water/bubbles? For example I have a character who's drowning in water like liquid in my thesis film, what can I do to make the animation feel like she's drowning?

[yetifighter]

Thank you so much for this. Just started animation as a hobby and your videos are super helpful by the way

[adriananimations]

hey Howard. i just want to say thank you so much!!. i'm starting to feel really really happy with my animations because i've been watching your animation tutorials every day for a while. my fire animations and my short animations look and feel more like me. thank you so much!!

[joshuagandia]

This video was done exceptionally well. I am very impressed by your insightful knowledge on this subject. Keep it up!

[tz]

Yeah, Howard! It would be cool to create a course on ELEMENTS!

[GameDevAraz]

No Wonder Cgi Can Look So True To Realness... Is Because It Shows You Exactly How Things Can Be... Deep Within!

[craigtomes]

Awesome tutorials🔥 im just starting out my animation journey

[DIsraelP]

Really awesome man, I'm glad I found you channel and Patreon! Keep it up!

[justnadja]

wow thank you so much this is exactly the breakdown of fire i was searching for for two hours

[CrazyStarr_]

I absolutely love how you draw fire. Its so different but it’s so familiar.

[mostlyvoid]

this video helped a lot! thank u so much
also I really liked the bg music

[shakeemwinn]

Thank you my guy. This will help tremendously.

[SkullivanBones]

that Thicc brush panel tho :3

loved to tutorial howard! :)

[nari]

I love your animation you are amazing 💙