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Illustrating hot steam...?
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:40 pm
by johann.dugge
Hi there,
I'm doing the modelling and rendering for a product concept (uni..) It's basically an enhanced steam cleaner:
I don't think the visual clues are good enough to indicate that the arrows represent hot water vapour (aka steam
Any suggestions / examples on how to do this nicely would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers!
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:50 pm
by Maximus3D
If it's not going to be animated then you could simply paint it in using a reddish color in Photoshop. If it's going to be animated there are numerous ways you could do that.. particles, After Effects post work, animated by hand, animated textures on planar surfaces and many other ways...
/ Max
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:07 pm
by johann.dugge
Thanks Max! It's not going to be animated (phew!) Do you mean something like this:
It's tricky to not make it look like the coloured vapour is gonna stain your carpet
The arrows are not final btw, can be changed...
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 10:28 pm
by Eric Lagman
Maybe try grey instead of red to make the look of steam. The arrows could be light grey also and see how that looks. I think what you have is fine though and illustrates the point.
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 10:52 pm
by Bubbaloo
Realflow -> mesh -> SSS vapor...
If you got the time...
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:16 pm
by Leonardo
Maximus3D wrote:If it's not going to be animated then you could simply paint it in using a reddish color in Photoshop.
that is also what I would have done...
johann._ wrote:Thanks Max! It's not going to be animated (phew!) Do you mean something like this:
It's tricky to not make it look like the coloured vapour is gonna stain your carpet
The arrows are not final btw, can be changed...
hmmm... I was picturing something more like:
but it's had to work in such small picture
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:41 pm
by johann.dugge
Wow Leonardo, that is spot on! What were your settings / method for this effect?
I guess steam isn't really as abstract as I thought, and as Eric said, grey is much better than red paint mist
Bubba, yeah I don't have the time at the moment, but I'm curious to see what it'd look like with Realflow+Maxwell SSS, if you wanna give it a shot (and a week at least, haha)
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 12:17 am
by Leonardo
johann._ wrote:Wow Leonardo, that is spot on! What were your settings / method for this effect?
I guess steam isn't really as abstract as I thought, and as Eric said, grey is much better than red paint mist
Bubba, yeah I don't have the time at the moment, but I'm curious to see what it'd look like with Realflow+Maxwell SSS, if you wanna give it a shot (and a week at least, haha)
Realflow+Maxwell SSS sounds too complicated... I rather spend 2 min in postwork in photoshop
johann._, send me a pm tomorrow... When I'm back to the office I'll hook you up with some photoshop brushes and I'll explain a little what I did ( If you can send me a bigger (final) image even better).
leo