Introduction

Allan McKay, a well known Australian artist, returns with another set of tutorials for Sitni Sati’s FumeFX. The new DVD is called Fume FX: Advanced, and is a sequel to the Fume FX: Essentials training DVD. I was eagerly expecting the release of this set of tutorials, and was really interested in finding out what the lessons contain, as there really aren’t that many FumeFX tutorials available out there, either commercially or for free.

The DVD, as the title says, is aimed at learning FumeFX at an advanced level, and goes through a lot more detail than the previous FumeFX DVD release: shaders, materials, fire/smoke characteristics, Max scripting and other topics are covered. Some chapters also get into Particle Flow, Afterburn (another plugin from Sitni Sati) and the creation of procedural textures, among other topics. In the last few chapters compositing, post effects and work methods in Fusion are also discussed in detail. Pre-production, planning and design issues are also featured in these last chapters.