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From: Louai Abu-Osba <me@louai.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:00:28 -0400
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Subject: Re: [AE] Technique for animating fire?
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All of the above and make sure you break up the fire into different
layers. For example, the core of the fire maybe quite stable and
doesn't need to flicker as much as the top of the flames. If you're
using a displacement map with noise you can throw a gradient on top of
your noise to increase the amount of displacement gradually.

-louai

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:52 PM, David Torno <torno@sydefxink.com> wrote:
> Animate the Evolution property of the Fractal Noise plugin and the Offset
> property on Y. Precomp that layer and use it as a displacement map and it
> creates decent heat haze/fire looking movement.
>
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> On Aug 28, 2012, at 9:39 AM, "Martin, Chris (HQP)" <chris.martin@rhi.com>
> wrote:
>
> Does anyone have a good technique for animating fire?  I am not looking for
> a process to create fire, but a good animation technique to create the
> movement of fire. I want to take a vector-based graphic and animate it.
>
>
>
> Thanks!