Blender for Beginners: Realistic Smoke and Fire

Let's burn it down... in Blender! 🔥 CG Cookie contributor Chris Bailey from @CBaileyFilm walks us through this Blender workflow. You'll learn how to create realistic smoke and fire - even if you've never created a simulation in 3d before.

Here is what this Blender tutorial video covers:
00:00 Getting started
00:48 Defining a domain for our simulation
01:30 Create an object that emits smoke
02:23 Defining flow behavior
03:10 Let's see our smoke!
04:40 Save the file (for smoother playback)
05:00 Adding some detail - voxels
06:30 Let's add some noise and dissolve
07:00 Rendering our simulation in Eevee
07:45 Adding a principled volume shader
09:45 Now that we have some smoke, let's add FIRE
11:30 Resolution, brightness, and final tweaks
13:30 How this works with other models
14:00 How to add sparks

Have fun burning things down!

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[JGulickx]

This is one of the best tutorials on youtube. Not just for Blender. Especially because you explain WHY you change certain parameters and settings. THANK YOU.

[SpencerMagnusson]

One tip I've seen from older tutorials - vary the smoke inflow's emission, both over time and over location. Make the inflow object animated and displace it, or vary where the emission happens over time. Keeping it in the same place and at the same rate makes it look rather dull.
This is a great tutorial. It gives more than enough for beginners to start :)

[lordcrayzar]

I like that inflow flows out and outflow flows in.

[Snairster]

Definitely the best fire tutorial. There's others that're helpful to amateurs such as myself, but don't go into detail like you did. You explained every step of the way and I didn't feel lost at all. This is helping me on my current project, so thanks!

[SlickFX_Trader]

Awesome tutorial mate. A fellow Melbournite here :). Just one thing I have not been able to do and I have searched far and wide. Reduce the flames and smoke to sit only at the bottom of the object like It's starting to catch fire?
THis is a great tutorial and the best one on the net. Explains in detail the steps that most miss skip over and actually explains why selecting what we are selecting! Thank you again

[sweetcorn]

4 hours i spend trying to do all this and then found this guy subbed pal follow you form now on x

[rededwards]

GREAT vid...SOMETIMES NEW users have a hard time figuring out how to get the BAKE Option to Appear. That switch from REPLAY to ALL does the trick. I know I could not FIND that thing for NOTHING

[BlackShArk]

Chris i want to see anything that You have on Your mind, cause it's always fun to watch <3

[ShovonaKarmakar]

I genuinely love the way you explain and make a tutorial sound so much fun, :) I try to avoid those hour-long ones.

[teakettle]

Side note: that bit about cache was gold 😂😂

[georgigeeksky]

I love this guy! He explains everything so good and makes it very simple to understand!

[marcelofeijao]

Was searching for this for a reallyyyy long time. You "lose" some time explain every step and option you change and I can't thank you enough for that!! SUBED

[nithinjithu]

hardest way to create smoke.. i loved it... i love chalanges

[zanad]

Excellent as always! Thank you for telling us the WHY, not just the HOW

[MrButafor]

Greets to Australia from Moscow, thanks man.

[TheDaNuker]

As an add-on to this excellent basic tutorial for EEVEE stylized flames, I have a suggestion to have a follow up video on explaining the fire Volume Info attributes. The documentation on this is a little confusing due to the Mantaflow switch and I'm not certain if some of the older attributes like 'heat' are still applicable.

[jugibur]

Thank you very much for your effort, with you I have now finally understood the basic concept – even if my fire unfortunately looks quite different (worse) despite the exact values. And strangely enough, sometimes my fire doesn't update when I change the values either.... But here probably only helps: practice, practice, practice...

[rodrigoceccatodefreitas]

I really appreciate the way you explain stuff

[vijayanmuthuraj]

8:04 thats because it is connected in surface options of materials. selecting principled volume in volume option fits correctly. (it is the third option in materials

[inknpaintCW]

Super good tutorial.
Thanks
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