Illustrating hot steam...?

Illustrating hot steam...?#293890

By johann.dugge - Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:40 pm

- Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:40 pm #293890

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!

#293891

By Maximus3D - Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:50 pm

- Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:50 pm #293891

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

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#293892

By johann.dugge - Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:07 pm

- Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:07 pm #293892

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...

#293909

By Eric Lagman - Thu Mar 12, 2009 10:28 pm

- Thu Mar 12, 2009 10:28 pm #293909

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.

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#293913

By Bubbaloo - Thu Mar 12, 2009 10:52 pm

- Thu Mar 12, 2009 10:52 pm #293913

Realflow -> mesh -> SSS vapor...

If you got the time...

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#293914

By Leonardo - Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:16 pm

- Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:16 pm #293914

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

#293916

By johann.dugge - Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:41 pm

- Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:41 pm #293916

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)

#293917

By Leonardo - Fri Mar 13, 2009 12:17 am

- Fri Mar 13, 2009 12:17 am #293917

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