Creating Animated Clouds in Maya Through Fluids

eosacro offers a look at leveraging the fluid system to create animated clouds in Maya, creating clouds that will animate over a small terrain. Maya fluids are great for this kind of thing, offering some easy presets to build your work upon.

In this video you will learn how to use 3D fluids, edit their basic settings, animate 3d textures and several other tips in Maya

eosacro shows how to set up the 3D fluid containers and edit their basic settings. The animation will be driven from 3D textures, making it easy to animate and control the animation parametrically.

This is actually a sneak look at a larger Visual Effects Tutorial Series from eosacro. Although not yet released, the VFX Tutorial – Interactive Landscape Composite – Complete Series is available for pre-order. It looks great, and it is very inexpensive for the continent presented.

 

More on Creating Animated Clouds in Maya

Maya fluids are pretty fun to play with, so there have been a few more tutorials that we have had the opportunity to see in this field.

Stuart Christensen offered a beginners look at getting started using Fluid Containers in Maya to create clouds.

David Schoneveld offered a more advanced look and shared some great tips for Creating Cloudscapes in Maya With Fluid Containers.

Emmanuel Mouillet had a look at using his emfxClouds tool in Maya, that will create fluid-clouds based on stand-in geometry – allowing you to sculpt the look of the clouds with polygons before applying the fluids. emfxCLOUDS Use Proxy Geometry to Create Maya Fluid Clouds.

Not really a tutorial, but a look into a new plugin for Maya that offers a new take on building VFX in 3D applications. The Elementicular project will allow you to build visual effects for shots easier by providing a procedural approach to creating things like volumetric clouds, and rocks providing instant visual feedback as you tweak the parameters. Check the post The Elementacular Project Takes Aim at Making Creating Visual Effects Easier and Faster, for more information with a look into how it works.