Half year project FumeFX vs. super spray

In our project we have some scene that require fire to add to the atmosphere of the movie, we had two choices, Thomas and Lasse had already produced an easy fire using super spray with opacity maps and self-illumination. It looked good in terms of creating a cartoonish style of film. But for our second choice we had FumeFX, I had acquired it from our first student year at Noroff for my final film project that year.

We did tests of both and FumeFX came out on top, to make it look more cartoony we did set down spacing in FumeFX, unfortunately FumeFX have a setback of taking some extra time to work with, and this caused a problem in one of the scenes were we didn’t notice that the spacing had been lowered too much and didn’t look good, but we no longer had time to resimulate and render out it over again as at that time we were in the final weekend before deadline and needed to start the compositing and post production.

Superspray:

FumeFX: