3ds max VFX tutorial (tyFlow Particle Smoke FX & Vray Next)

Hi everyone this is Allan McKay - I wanted to welcome you to a brand new video I am really excited to put out. This is based on an Instagram post that I put out for fun that I've had a lot of people asking about how I did it and wanting to see behind the scenes.
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This tyFlow 3DS Max VFX (visual effects) tutorial focuses on how to create particle patterns and intricate motion inside of tyFlow.
How to set up smoke simulations and other effects. You can create these in 3DS Max or Maya or Houdini Cinema 4D or Blender. As the process is relatively the same. What makes this unique is understanding turbulence and noise patterns and controlling advanced particle systems.
Whether you use volumetrics or let this drive Phoenix FD I want to later dig into using After Effects (After FX) to composite particle rendering techniques to further this look.
Also I will be releasing a lot of new training over the coming days focused entirely on Thanos VFX tutorials on creating ash, smoke and using V-Ray to light and render all of it inside of tyflow and Phoenix FD. So stay tuned!
This is based both on the looks of the ash from Avengers Endgame and Avengers Infinity War VFX to create a realistic feature film quality live action visual effects sequence which is going to be very epic and unlike anything ever released!
Check out tyFlow for 3DS Max - which is a level up over Particle Flow developed by Tyson Ibele.
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[@CGRecordTV]

Cheerss! Would love to see how you render and comp! Any tips for render and Comp should be great! Allan

[@AllanMcKay]

Thanks so much! I'm going to do a follow up soon and use PhoenixFD's point renderer for it - BTW I will email you on Tuesday once the Thanos training is out if you're interested in helping spread the word. Thanks again I love all the work you're doing!

[@risnandarmultimedia5296]

You make me fall in love to TyFlow than ThinkingParticles, i come from Blender but this tyflow beast is freakin awesome. I have some idea to implement this in my personal project. Great Work you have done here for starter

[@Marach79]

I'd love to see VFX/compositing tutorials incorporating free software like Blender and BMD Fusion. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

[@AllanMcKay]

Thanks Marach, I'm intentionally releasing a big free live action training course next week which is using tyFlow because it's currently free - and with Fusion which is also free. But I will definitely keep that in mind

[@amineroula]

very usefull, I can't wait for the Thanos tutorial :D

[@AllanMcKay]

Thanks man! Me too...

[@walkerboh39]

Very cool. Always enjoy your material. Waiting for Thanos disintegration too. Thank you Allan!

[@arshadmahmood2834]

Excellent, it is very cool to learning.

[@AllanMcKay]

Thank you 🙏

[@rominox7123]

Please do a lot of other tutorial on Tyflow ! Love it ;p

[@AllanMcKay]

Will do, cheers brother :)

[@pjp2013]

Thanks man! Really appreciate all your work!

[@AllanMcKay]

Thanks so much Prasanna!

[@paulharrison3522]

Very cool Allan! Giving me some ideas for alien growth, a nebula or maybe some type of energy powerup. Would be fun to see you approach a mud/landslide, not sure if we've covered something like that before. Thanks for sharing this stuff, really appreciate it, cheers!

[@AllanMcKay]

Cheers buddy :) and yeah definitely keep that in mind! Hope you're doing well brother

[@Tetsuokable]

would love some tutorials on how to get partlcles to follow or create different geometry, or some magic effects/spells , like turning swords into glowing projectiles with magic particles around them etc

[@AllanMcKay]

That's a great idea I'll keep that in mind thank you!

[@runsintunson9586]

Hey Allan! Thank you for all of your hard work that you put into your videos! I do want to know, what are your thoughts on freeware? Do you think Blender is stepping up? Have you seen anything noteworthy made in Blender? Again, thanks for your videos!

[@AllanMcKay]

I'll be honest I've never used Blender but I've been following it back as far as 2005 and I'm really blown away by what I see. I don't think free or paid makes too much of a difference, other than having more of a committed team and budget to bring on more more talent. But I really like where it's headed - my friends over at Tangent in Toronto are using it for a feature film exclusively and it's looking great so far!

[@AfterJuneFilm]

Very useful, working on some nebula, space stuff for a client. This gives me another interesting path that I will be testing. Really looking forward to the Thanos videos !!! Keep up the great work for all of us....

[@patrickg.1521]

Allan ..... thanks again for this share ... will gladly sit down and follow every move t'ill the end . ;)

[@AllanMcKay]

Thanks so much Patrick that means a lot 🙏

[@gregorybergot]

I would really like a basic tutoriel for begginners on Houdini with a little bit of VEX language! It could be awesome!!

[@AllanMcKay]

will do, noted! Thanks NYXD

[@stan5995]

Thank you very much for the content you keep providing, good stuff. Do you have any plans to take a closer look at the script operator? Apart from the documentation, I can't find any content for that online, and to me it looks like it could be one of the most powerful tools in tyFlow.

[@AllanMcKay]

Definitely at some point - so far I'm more focused on what moves the needle. I used to script EVERYTHING back in the Maya days - but there's such a big benefit to node based workflows that you actually don't have to script too much anymore. So there's still a need for it but it's less necessary. So I'll give it some thought as to ways that it could be best utilized. Rather than scripting for scriptings sake. However, I just recorded a scripting tutorial which I'll release tonight or tomorrow so stay tuned :) (not scripting with tyFlow but scripting still and I plan to do another scripting one over the weekend) Thanks Stan!

[@wonkaytry]

Do more Tflow!, its about to take off.

[@jixal]

Thanks for the tute Allan. I'd have been in interested to see how you would then render these particles efficiently =).

[@mae2309]

I was told once.. " If you had the power of learning by touchings peoples brain. who wold your first victim be?" My answer: ALLAN MC FKN KAY!!!! Teacher: I dont know who that is. Me: of course you dont. you teach history. Me again: hahahahahaha.. am gonna go and do some sick ass VFX NOW!!! thank you. this was a sweet tut... cheers!!

[@AllanMcKay]

Hahahaha thanks so much man that made my day

[@jerthey1]

So cool Allan thank you so much! Can we have some Houdini tutorial too please

[@AllanMcKay]

Thanks Jerthey - is there any particular subjects on Houdini you want to see? Ie. PyroFX or FLIP etc.

[@jerthey1]

@@AllanMcKay Hello Allan~ thank you so much for reply, would love to see some FLIP topic stuff :D

[@mangeshkakade2628]

I am very noob in particles but after viewing your videos it seems easy to me right now i am practicing Tyflow so ,Is it possible to make foldfx like effect in Tyflow

[@DanceManAlex]

I know this is a month old but i WOULD LOVE to see a super hero vfx CAPE shot. Like for Man of Steel or from Doctor Strange. This has always stumped me and I'd love to learn about the industry way of going about this!. Thanks!

[@wal3dz]

Nice tutorial, thank you very much... Only missing the Vray Next rendering part?

[@AllanMcKay]

Thanks Walid - yeah I am doing a follow up where I want to use Phoenix and V-Ray to render everything out in points so stay tuned! :)

[@wal3dz]

@@AllanMcKay Thanks, I can't wait :)

[@sachin_salve7694]

Wow..this is Cool..!!!

[@AllanMcKay]

Thank you Sachin!

[@ankitkumarmaurya8500]

Really appreciate your work man..looking for some training about iron man nano particle suite up scene from infinity war. The way he creates various weapon with that....

[@AllanMcKay]

Great man I'll keep it in mind - that's come up a bit so I'll definitely see what I can do

[@ankitkumarmaurya8500]

@@AllanMcKay a bit of guidance will also be very helpful in getting me started .. thanku

[@blast2000]

Thanks a lot!!!!,I really would like to understand each opérator

[@AllanMcKay]

Thanks VJ I'm going to cover this soon

[@manjunathparemajilu9739]

Thank you Guru

[@AllanMcKay]

Thank you so much Manjunath 🙏

[@nikolaitatun]

YES!!!!

[@AllanMcKay]

Thanks Nikolai!

[@tomasgainza7162]

smoke material? or material in particules, rendering with vray etc :D

[@lucvw1975]

FumeFX 5.0.3 supports TyFlow now, but I can't seem to find how to select a TyFlow system in the FumeFX dialog. Could you do a small tutorial on this please ? Thanks !

[@marnofranck6204]

In Battleship the movie directed by Peter Berg, there's that one scene where the alien ship creates a beam effect and it goes up in sky and creates a force field.. How can I make a similar effect? I've notice when that beam charge up and shoots out there's some lightning effects but overall that particles animation is awesome.

[@AllanMcKay]

ah! It's funny I was just thinking tyflow would be great for something like this the other day. So I will definitely keep that in mind, thanks Marno!

[@marnofranck6204]

@@AllanMcKay Thank you for the reply! And thank you for all of your tutorials!

[@lukkilp1460]

I want to see a blender vfx tutorial😍😍

[@AllanMcKay]

cool :)

[@方エデン]

Thank you. I think it can be used in the effect of Van Gogh :D

[@ContradanzaEU]

More Houdini stuff would be nice :P

[@AllanMcKay]

Great to know - I will definitely put some stuff together, stay tuned!

[@ContradanzaEU]

@@AllanMcKay Looking forward to that :)

[@kanitk8632]

Is this smoke interactive ? If i put character in this smoke will it interact with it .

[@AllanMcKay]

If you use the particle force operator at the end of the lesson right you can bind it as a force to get particles to move away from it. However, if you take my particle dispersion lesson and combine it with this you can do exactly that. Use a Phoenix FD force to drive the particles interaction with the character.

[@kanitk8632]

@@AllanMcKay Thanks Allan, i'll try the steps you mentioned and update you if i got stuck anywhere. You are great !!!

[@bobankrsmanovic9398]

@@kanitk8632 I wouldn't get overcomplicated with smoke/character collision, mostly because, in reality, smoke is more affected by the air/wind force that character movement produce, and you don't really see much of the collision. That being said, few wind forces (with attenuation) linked to character bones, might do the trick very well, and you don't need particles to calculate heavy character mesh. Just my 2 cents. Good luck :)

[@kanitk8632]

@@bobankrsmanovic9398 Thanks for the suggestion. I'll will definitely try your method. Any help is appreciated 😊

[@cgsouq3dmodels]

hi Allan, do you have any tutorial on scattering trees using tyflow? on a large scale? please let me know the link, many thanks

[@wantap9255]

Sir would love to learn the effect in Infinity war when thanos turns drax into pieces. Please it will be a great help.

[@iamwoozy]

hi! is this krakatoa render? on this video preview ?

[@leongcheeweiwei6980]

Hi, how about making a cell mitosis tutorial for tyflow

[@KADAMBACREATION]

Harry Potter apparate moving in a real world with moving camera!!

[@AllanMcKay]

Cool! Do you have a link to any reference? I tried googling it but didn't get the best results :(

[@KADAMBACREATION]

@@AllanMcKay kzbin.info/www/bejne/fXfdY3eQgb6eq7c From 1:40 to 1:52 it's not clear though..!!

[@chandanmandal7625]

how to make ironman suit up like Endgame please guide .

[@DjKarlVictory]

Thanks/// but! [DO SOME X-MEN DARK PHOENIX TUTORIAL] ./

[@AllanMcKay]

OK great any scene in particular? Let me know and I'll be glad to carve out some time to cover it - thanks DJ Karl!

[@DjKarlVictory]

When the alien girl/ trying to take away jean’s Power./ all those particules./ Or When Jean is angry! And her face start changing/ with fire trace

[@AllanMcKay]

@@DjKarlVictory Got it! Thanks so much DJ Karl

[@tiarasparks12]

More Houdini please.

[@AllanMcKay]

Sure thing Tiara, thank you!

[@hasmikmkhchyan4909]

Cool tutorial, thank you!! I would love some tutorials with particles driven by motion vector of video. Or something like this instagram.com/p/BkWP8pdld57/