Jherson Mendoza shows us how to create a mushroom-cloud explosion effects using maya fluids. Unfortunately there is no audio so if you do follow along, its just a straight push-button tutorial, but the result is pretty cool nonetheless.

Maya Fluids Tutorial + Nuke Basic Settings from Jherson Mendoza on Vimeo.

Quick Overview on Maya Fluids +

Basic Nuke Settings + Render

Some Test

(i’m sorry but i get a little confuse on the settings, try not to use to much buoyancy, and key it, and use the simulation rate scale instead)

Sorry i haven’t post the Fire Vs Water, Air & Earth, it still wip

i will post a Nuke(I HOPE MAKE LOOK REAL)

and later on the Roling Nuke with ring in the end

2 comments

  1. yuval

    hoo right, great tutorial.
    I’m using maya for a three years and I’m new with fire and smok.
    how can I build a scene with smoke that came out from fire?, because..”thare is no smoke without a fire”
    thank’s, keep uploading this stuff
    yuval

  2. Thanks for finding this…

    Really nice….

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