Hello every one!

And welcome to the wonderful world of fluids, My name is Aziz Khan and I will be your guide through this tutorial and I hope you all will enjoy doing this. In this tutorial we will explore some of the tools and options of fluid to create melting text effect like smoke. This tutorial is very handy for those of you who are looking to add something different and rather cool to your short movies or demo reel headers and intros.

Fluid effect is one of the powerful tools, that you can find inside Maya. It can achieve realistic result easily within a few minutes if you have experience and have a very creative mind. I would suggest that before you attempt to follow this tutorial, you should at least have a basic knowledge of the program first.

Ok lets get started.