Part Five: Illustrating Mayhem

In this fully standalone episode we start with short introduction to theory of particle systems and then we use all that knowledge in practice in our huge illustration, trying to balance raw elemental powers of fire and mayhem with the rest of the scene.

Using only Photoshop I'm photo bashing a lot of flames to create believable fire and show you how to create realistically looking smoke using fairly simple brush techniques. Also with painting and manipulating some of the previously created 3d assets I unleash hellstorm of flying debris. Plus there are sparks, lots of them ;]

Table of content as follows:

01 Life of a particle
02 Creating fire
03 Creating smoke
04 Unleashing debris
05 Bonus Mayhem - creating a promo poster

Three hours of brand new material ;]

Also included is poster PSD file, with all that destruction madness FULLY LAYERED ;]

Enjoy and of course I encourage you to watch previous parts of "Illustration Unchained"

Marek