How to Make Beautiful Fire in Blender

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[safaaminhas]

Your videos have really changed the quality of my work

[mulanmiller]

I can't tell you how refreshing it is to see a tutorial without an animated intro, EDM background music, memes and bad jokes. Just stripped down to great content throughout.

[Scouty]

Little trick btw!

Instead of rendering them as Ico-spheres, you can cache out the sim as a alembic file (file-export, selected object).

Then read it in and use geo-nodes on a plane, add the alembic cache object, -> set-position and mesh to points to get perfectly round sphere objects that you can apply a light material to.

From what I understand, those perfectly round spheres you get with mesh to points will be more efficient than rendering ico-spheres. Allowing more particles for heavier stuff (maybe not for embers but something that is a little more intense).

Bad Bormals has a great video covering this in greater depth

[conorsvfx]

you can cut about five minutes of work from this by pressing shift+A, images as planes, find your fire video, tick "animate image sequences", and tick "emit". It will set it up at the right aspect ratio, the length of the clip and emitting light

[DimiArt]

love how you just appeared one day and started blowing up.

[jadenlow]

It's insane how I was just looking up Blender fire tutorials. I ask and you continue to deliver

[marcozagara]

Png sequence to Photoshop, post production and video export could be the next tutorial 😏 fire video man! 🥁

[NkRiot]

Ian Hubert vibes!! Love it!! Great work legend

[adammurtomaa]

Could you do a little video on render settings and denoising and stuff like that? I found it interesting that you don't have a noise threshold set and you do your denoising in the compositor, and at just 100 samples for such a low light scene you still get super clean results.

[nthanstewart]

Add a low strength wind force with some noise to this and you can make the particles seem like they’re part of an outdoor environment :)

[TruthSurge]

you mean FORWARD slash. It's the one on the ? key. The particles add a nice touch. thx for the tuts!

[arkreatives]

One of the fastest growing YouTuber!
Hope to see you succeed even more, Sir.😌💜

[BBennie]

Once again great vid!

For the particles u can render them as points with geometry nodes it only takes a small setup with 5 nodes and you'll have perfect spheres with no extra geometry cost :)

[ArtForSwans]

I had no idea Blender had a video node, this is much quicker and easier than fiddling with Blender's fire physics.

[tony_vfx]

My morning with your video... ❤❤
Oh its a wonderful day now...
Love your videos bro...
The tricks you show are very useful... And the best part is the way you explains them is so intresting....
You always give useful information....
Without any useless talks....
Love your videos... Keep making them

[CreativeHubFx]

Max hay is an asset to all the blender people out there!! Treasure him 💛

[joe_fabricator]

Love this tutorial!!! Thanks for sharing this with us Max. Saving to my reference library.

[healthymen]

Excellent, to the point informative video
Please keep posting sir
Thanks A lot 🥰🥰🥰

[InfinitySiam]

So we do follow exact same workflow. nice job Max 👌

[theklez]

* I see the video title
Me: please don't be a simple plane with a video on it, please don't be a simple plane with a video on it
Video: plane with video on it