VFX Artist Lotsalote Shares Tips for Working With Blender Smoke Simulation Engine & Rendering Smoke With Cycles

As part of Blender, you get some nice VFX tools such as a capable dynamics engine that includes smoke. B3D even has a Quick Smoke tool that lets you easily create a smoke simulation from any selected object — But how do you translate Blender default smoke settings into something a little more spectacular?

[pullquote align=”right”]taking a look at b3d’s smoke simulation engine, rendered in Cycles[/pullquote]

Norwegian 3D generalist, VFX Artist Lotsalote can help, sharing some of his discoveries from researching b3d’s smoke simulation engine. Lotsalote also covers a quite for rendering smoke with Cycles. You can see some of Lotsalote’s smoke-filled experiments on his Instagram where he shares a lot of his work in progress.