Tutorial: Zero-G fire / Unstable Sun

[ShiveringCactus]

This tutorial creates an 3D ball of plasma like you might get with fire in zero gravity (zero-g) or if you have a really, really unstable star. And it's based on Texturelab's After Effects fire tutorial. I'd already been looking at improving my Sun tutorial from my Makin' Planets playlist when I realised I could adapt Brady's procedural fire to work as fireball in space.

In this video, I show you how to start with a 3D precomp, then we'll using a few of Video Copilot's free tools to link one comp into another. From there, following Texturelabs recipe, I add fractal noise, displacement maps and colorama to create a powerful, dangerously volatile star.

[Mylenium]

Lose the rays! This looks corny as heck. And of course the color... Too Yellow. Needs to be more white. Also for a smaller plasma ball you'd only see the outer hull. The inner area is too hot and doesn't emit visible light.

Mylenium

[nishu_kush]

That's amazing!!!

Thanks for sharing @ShiveringCactus 

Best,

Nishu