2DFX animation : Dissipation and dust

Dissipation is my favorite thing about traditional / tradigital 2d fx animation.
There are countless ways smoke, fire, magic, and other elements can be animated to disappear from the screen.
IMHO small directional dust is the easiest and funnest way to practice a variety of ways in a relatively short amount of time.
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[@hexwrench4433]

1:55 Don't sell yourself short when it comes to FX not being center stage. I remember many seens in Akira where it was the kick-up of clouds and debris that gave the excitement to the film. A quick cheat that I use to animate cloud rolling is to shift a cloud textured thru a distorted poly-mesh but it's pretty timid as to what you can express. It mostly works well making effects for frothing stew pots.

[@MarkDaviesArt]

Great bud, literally working on a fire effect for a game at work and was struggling with this exact issue, this will help me big time :)

[@mariodeotazua5169]

God! You are the effing BEST , always so clear and straigth to the point! Super thankfull for your work!

[@dj2460]

I am really learning a lot from the videos on your channel. Great content.

[@dixnsons]

Have literally changed my life. Thank you ❤

[@MeshFrequency]

@ 5:23 lol... funny stuff. Great tutorial as always.

[@kidsmaster7861]

Big fan😊

[@Library4Lich]

Your channel is absolutely amazing btw

[@alexmehler6765]

what great content. best channel of its kind

[@yoleafbug]

That was a fantastic tutorial, thank you!

[@MattHorstmanAnimation]

Thanks for the advice. Helps a lot :)

[@blupetersilie]

very cool , you helped me so much, thank you

Well explained! Thank you

[@IndieDX]

Enlightening!!

[@kopotty]

Thanks so much for all your videos! I'm looking to move into FX from character they are so so helpful and informative. Thank you!

[@StylusRumble]

I'll give you a tip, Character animators do FX all the time. Characters are active, clothes, hair, dangly jewellery are all reactive. FX is mostly reactive. So if you're doing dust it's reacting to the force. If you're animating a flag, it's reacting to the wind. If you start thinking"how would X react to Y, you'll start to see you already know a lot of the stuff. The rest is just paying attention to different materials in the world. :)

[@mishacatgamer]

This was so helpful!

[@tariqueanimations]

You are best teacher !

[@BobaT6633]

Oh thank god, because of this video I won’t fail my art class’s animation assignment ;w;

[@kioly_ah]

非常喜欢你的教程.

[@KB_Art]

You are fantastic! Very clear instruction. Love your channel and work.

[@simonschu]

But would you look at THAT DIRECTIONAL DUST!

[@StylusRumble]

Me irl lol. I love dust.

[@PapoyCore]

What software ur using??

[@productivelygaming]

Toonboom Harmony

[@jessevvs]

Patronize much?