After releasing the student short movie : Indigen, Julien VANHOENACKER received alot of questions about how he made the explosions. Here is a small tutorial to help you make animated gaz explosion effects ... more

Although Combustion is mostly used for explosion effects, you can also use it to create smoke and clouds. This tutorial teaches you how to create the cloud shown above in a matter of minutes.

Before we start you will need one plugin for this tutorial, it isn’t a necessity but I’ve chosen to put it in just to save time making thin tendrils, it’s a free plugin though from Blur Studios .... For ... more

This tutorials will show you how to create a Particle Fire using Max2 particles.

This tutorial shall teach you how to create a realistic looking cigarette smoke that gradually fades out. This tutorial shall teach you one of the many possible that can be used to achieve this result, ... more

Warning: This tutorial requires freeware plugins: grid, mask modifier, cellular2D, terrain material and colour correct. These plugins can be obtained at many of the sites, here is one for example: http://max3d.3dluvr.com You ... more

This lesson will help you learn to create realistic fire by using a particles. When using this procedure you will be able to fire all you want, including animation figure of people, trees and etc. Fire ... more

This is just a quick and an efficient way of doing nice explosions. For this scene you will need 2 gizmo’s, 3 omni lights and 1 lens flare. First of all you will need 2 gizmo’s : 1 box and 1 sphere. ... more

Hello all of you guy and girls out there! Today we are going to create Fireworks working with 3D Studio Max 6, Particle Flow. Now Particle Flow is a new particle system that was introduced to us only ... more

In this tutorial I will show how to create fireworks animation using 3ds max and Particle Flow. This tutorial require basic skills of using 3ds max and Particle Flow. This isn’t step by step tutorial. ... more