The next thing I need to work on is the fire element in the centre of the scene. I have never created fire before and I think that using one of the pre-sets is the easiest plan of action.
I have a tutorial from my book "Learning Autodesk Maya 8" so I'll start with their method and see how it looks.
I completed the tutorial and the fire looks pretty good, the only problem is that they have built their flames around a cube shape. I don't want a cube it doesn't look right with my project, so I'm changing it to more of a pyramid shape which looks a lot better.
I have also made the cube/pyramid invisible and underneath I have constructed a general mount shape to stack the cows against, I have changed the transparency of the mound because it is too apparent in a solid colour.
Here is a shot of the final composition:-
I need to work towards getting something like a short 30 second piece of film down just to show the project. I would like it to be quite creepy and dysfunctional, so the filming is jumping around a lot.
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