Creating an Instagram Reel in Maya 2022 | Low-Poly Rocket Ship Animation

In this video I use Maya 2022.1 to 3D model and animate a low-poly rocket launch for an Instagram reel. I was messing around with Maya's Bifrost Fluid Simulator to create the smoke and fire, then I rendered it out as an image sequence. All post work was done in Adobe Premiere.
Let me know in the comments what you thought of the video, and what you would like to see in the next one!
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[@milanasobhi]

Wow just wow. This is amazing! I honestly wish I could create stuff like this.

[@veronicatrunzo6831]

whoa this one is super cool!

[@kathatch6357]

Hahah this is awesome!! You’re so talented

[@_otabekm_]

Thank you a lot for tutorial!

[@polyrendr]

No problem! Glad you found it helpful.

[@alfagamex117]

Loved your video, it's amazing, I'm doing a rocket launcher simulation and I've been having some problems with the smoke to disappear and now, thanks to you, i realized that i was forgetting to use the dissipation value. Can I ask you how did you render the animation? I don't know how to render with transparent background, I already try some tutorials on youtube but none of them had worked.

[@polyrendr]

Thank you! Happy to hear you found it helpful. As for rendering I did a Render Sequence. I used a Skydome light and under 'Visibility' turned the Camera to 0 - this will make the background transparent. You can also try rendering different formats, try exr, tif, or PNG. I want to say I used tif but I could be wrong.

[@SAL73VFX]

Thanks for the tutorial. I don´t want to look "dumb", but what would be the purpose to make a demo reel for instagram? to show your skills or just like an intro for personal videos in that platform? Thanks again, I love your tutorials.

[@polyrendr]

Thanks! Yeah, a lot of artists showcase their work on Instagram. I didn't create a demo reel, this short animation was just for an Instagram reel on my IG page, so it was more or less just showing the process I did to create it. The only thing that makes it unique to Instagram are the dimensions of the rendered video. Instagram tends to be quite picky with what dimensions you upload with. You could really export it at any size and upload to whichever platform you're using.

[@SAL73VFX]

@@polyrendr That´s interesting. I definitely need to explore more Instagram since a lot of people are using for several purposes. Thanks again, I´ll use your advice to create of my own! :D❤🤘🙂

[@squadgrab]

how you do the background with the smokes and so on ?

[@polyrendr]

The blue background and the clouds are images I added at the end in Adobe Premiere. The smoke was done with Maya’s Bifrost simulation and I rendered it all out with transparent backgrounds.

[@squadgrab]

@@polyrendr can you do also animation videos ?. i mean charackter animation ?

[@polyrendr]

@@squadgrab for sure! I don’t do character animations too often but there will definitely be a few in the future!