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- Introduction to advanced particle set ups and workflows

- creating explosions

- procedural events and complex particle set ups

- creating a large tornado

- creature effects

- crowd simulations

- creating a vampire ashing effect

- and plenty of other topics.

3rd March �08 �

Fume FX: Essentials - Training DVD released!!

First of all, thank you for everyone who has purchased my latest fume FX disc, its become an instant hit! The DVD primarily focusses on Fluid simulations for film, introducing fire, smoke, explosions and all other concepts that are tied to fume fx. We cover working and handling fluids and understanding the complex process. Working with particles, compositing fire and making the most of the entire fluids process! Definitely one for people who want to raise the bar on effects, essentially aimed at advanced users, but designed thoroughly enough for most users to be able to keep up.

I have just returned from Vancouver where I did an intense 3 day training course with a lot of Frantic Films senior staff, training them on particles, fluids and visual effects and various other advanced content for film using pflow/thinking particles, fume fx, shaders and maxscript. Which days before that I was in Tokyo and Osaka holding a pirvate masterclass for a lot of the local game and film studios there! Thank you everyone for attending, it was a huge crowd and it was great to meet everyone!! - I am currently in New York for the next month overseeing the fx for a game cinematic with Tronic.

Finally I will be speaking at CG Overdrive 2008 in June in Singapore - Asia's largest annual animation festival, and later in the year at Creanimax, and lastly holding a HUGE masterclass again this year for SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles - this will be covering in great detail a lot of my more recent film work - as well as focussing on advanced techniques for production on fire, smoke, explosions and everything fire. So if youever wanted to blow something up this masterclass will be the one for you!

Lots of new announcements to come - but in the meantime I have released a bunch of new scripts and tutorials for max. Primarily focussing on maxscript, fume fx and afterburn. There will be plenty more to come, these ones are more introductory stuff however I will be covering plenty of high quality tutorials in the coming weeks.

ut_FFX2_Explosion1
Very simple tutorial just to jump start people into fume fx land.
http://www.allanmckay.com/tut/tut_FFX2_Explosion1.avi

tut_FFX3_FuelMasks1
More on the basics, emitting fuel from masks.
http://www.allanmckay.com/tut/tut_FFX3_FuelMasks1.avi

tut_FFX4_PFAB
Using pflow on a per-event level with fume fx.
http://www.allanmckay.com/tut/tut_FFX4_PFAB.avi

tut_maxscript1
max script intro 1
http://www.allanmckay.com/tut/tut_maxscript1.avi

tut_maxscript2
max script intro 1
http://www.allanmckay.com/tut/tut_maxscript2.avi

tut_maxscript3
max script intro 1
http://www.allanmckay.com/tut/tut_maxscript3.avi

they will require the techsmith codec (http://www.techsmith.com).s

I have also put together some of my more recent scritps I've written, currently they are presented 'as is' - I will later release all of these in a more presentable format with videos and intructions etc to make all of this easier. However currently I'm couped up in my hotel room in new york and havent got all of my resoruces with me. So there will be more to come! For a more detailed description of these scripts you can look at my CG Talk post for further reference.

http://www.allanmckay.com/scripts/amckay_scripts_01.rar

And lastly I will be moving back to North America this year so good times ahead! I will be speaking at SIGGRAPH and various other events I will announce soon.

Lastly there is an interview with myself in the latest digital media world magazine - you can read the article here if you do not have your latest issue! haha

So lots more to come - more tuts, cleaner site, more scripts, and properly presented. lots of other stuff!

31th January �08 �

Fume FX: Essentials - Training DVD released!!

ell. Click on the image below to see more information about the product!

26th January �08 �

Hi everyone and happy new year - I'm currently in Tokyo for my digital pyrotechnics class with Autodesk, next stop Osaka! One of these days I'll update this website so its a bit neater.. but for the time being here are a few updates.

SIGGRAPH 2008 - I will be holding a class on digital fire, this class will be I'm hoping my best content yet. Case studies on recent films, covering in depth lots of fluid simulations and fire, and really showing the balls of digital fire creation, explosions and everything I know on fluids and fire.