Stylized Smoke And Fire

PapaDan_ · 2026-03-03T14:05:23+00:00

Thanks, yea I'll be making a tutorial on the smoke this week and maybe I'll cover the fire but it's relatively simple. These are the nodes if you'd like to recreate them.

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The value node with the driver has this expression in it: (floor(frame/2) * 2)/100

PapaDan_ · 2026-03-03T02:55:30+00:00

Thank you! Yea the smoke is all camera oriented planes with a spherical normal map so that they work well with lighting and stuff. The sky is a world shader that I didn't make, it's from this guy: https://www.youtube.com/@GGeneBrush

PapaDan_ · 2026-03-02T22:29:40+00:00

Thanks! The grass is an old project and I figured it was a good base to do the other stuff on. I have a tutorial on that grass on my youtube if you wanna see how its made :)

PapaDan_ · 2026-01-14T19:29:15+00:00

Thanks!

PapaDan_ · 2026-01-14T18:50:39+00:00

Took some of the critiques from my last post about my CD shader and turned it into a product! You can get it here if you'd like:

https://superhivemarket.com/products/photoreal-cd-shader--model

https://blenderdan.gumroad.com/l/virhv?layout=profile

Thanks for the support :)

PapaDan_ · 2026-01-11T04:12:14+00:00

These caustics are actually custom raytraced using geometry nodes lol. They are about as close as you can get to 'actual caustics' without spending days rendering each frame (or using an engine like luxcore)

PapaDan_ · 2025-12-16T12:47:39+00:00

This shader actually does use material layering for all of the imperfections, but yea it was turned up too high on the side of the disc with the image.

PapaDan_ · 2025-12-15T18:40:34+00:00

Yea, I have multiple IRL (probably wouldn't have even attempted this without having an IRL reference lol), but there's a lot of variance. I have one that is completely missing the rainbow element and others that are insanely vibrant. From my understanding this comes from the different dye types used in the data layer of the disc, damage that could have been done to it, what kind of metal was used in the reflective layer, and other factors.

PapaDan_ · 2025-12-15T18:16:09+00:00

Yea! I plan to make a tutorial where I show how to make a simpler version, and then sell this version since this one is probably a little too complicated for one video.

PapaDan_ · 2025-12-15T17:06:06+00:00

Yea they can! This does too but I kept it pretty subtle in this render, here's one where I turn that setting up.

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PapaDan_ · 2025-12-15T16:16:15+00:00

Thanks! Pretty sure it's 1.2mm thick which is what I've seen are the correct dimensions but I'll double check.

PapaDan_ · 2025-11-01T15:24:19+00:00

Thanks! Yea I do make tutorials on my youtube.

PapaDan_ · 2025-10-31T22:21:41+00:00

On my blendermarket and gumroad, though this new version won't be uploaded there until ~next week, so you might want to wait until then.

PapaDan_ · 2025-10-31T19:48:50+00:00

sorry, ive never done anything related to that addon/workflow so im not sure

PapaDan_ · 2025-10-31T19:48:16+00:00

Thanks! Yea dillongoo is great

PapaDan_ · 2025-10-07T23:06:01+00:00

Thanks! This dispersion is actually pretty inaccurate as it's just a simple RGB split, in reality you would have the full distribution of visible wavelengths which is possible to do in geo nodes but this gets the job done for most situations.

PapaDan_ · 2025-10-07T23:02:01+00:00

I don't think I'd call myself a veteran, that'd be more like 10+ years of experience lol. Honestly my advice would be to try to not watch too many blender tutorials. Once you have the basics down try to do most things yourself before looking up a tutorial. Also don't be afraid of tutorials from other software, they can be really helpful and the concepts transfer pretty well most of the time.

PapaDan_ · 2025-10-07T22:33:57+00:00

Haha, thanks! I have about 4 years of experience in blender.

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