Smoke Simulation Tutorial – Blender Cycles


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In this video, we’ll be taking a look at Blender’s smoke simulation engine, rendered in Cycles. Huge thanks to everyone requesting this tutorial! It was a lot of fun to make. See timestamps below:

*IMPORTANT: Make sure you are in the Cycles Render Engine before adding the Quick Smoke effect. This will automatically set up the smoke material.

0:08 – Quick Smoke
2:06 – Animating the emitter
4:21 – Camera and lighting
9:26 – Rendering and exporting
12:17 – Post production in After Effects

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24 responses to “Smoke Simulation Tutorial – Blender Cycles”

  1. Latest version render is black you skipped how you made the materials for the smoke that's where everything seems to go wrong for the rendering results. Could you do a separate video on how you enhanced your color choices and should we be in render cycles before we hit quick smoke ?

  2. Hello lotsalote!
    Just did this tutorial from the beginning in Cycles and everything goes well and in render view it show me my smoke and i even render it in low quality to look how's it.

    After i bake my simulation… Now i can't see what's happened, because i see only BLACK CUBE (smoke domain) and when i start render it just a black cube…
    Maybe you know why?

  3. if you're doing a tutorial on something like smoke simulation, don't waste any time on explaning the viewers how to do some basic blender operations regarding the user interface.
    The average viewers will most likely know how to move or rotate an object and how to snap rotation properties or how to create keyframes.
    Don't waste any time on explaining how to setup lights, because 1stly, the way you did it is super easy, so there's no explanation required
    and 2ndly, because there's a lot that can be done with lighting in blender, information like this can be included in a dedicated video.
    You could've spent more time on the smoke tool itself, going a little bit into detail about the basics and most usefull functions.

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