Flying flag ?

[Anonymous]

Hi guys,

Does anyone know how to get a flying to the wind flag effect from a still image.

I think a cheap way would be to make a displacement map, but it’s not convincing.

I’m looking for a solution either with Flame or AFX.

Thank you,

Alfafa

[summerJ]

hey,

if you wanna do it by hand, did you try the ext. bicubic on flame? it is not the fastest thing to do, but you have full controll of your flag.

cheers nanuk

[Noriaki]

Hi Nanuk,

Yes, I did consider this option but as you said it might be very slow.
Thanks,

Alfafa

[noo321 ali]

Hi,

if you have After FX there is a plug in Zaxwerks 3D flag (3rd Party) that will do the trick

cheers

[Saran Sirikasamsap]

add a distort node

[David Stewart]

I recently did a shot with this effect and used a texture of some rippling satin from one of our “stuff” reels to displace and colour correct the still image.

Once i stuck this in the scene it still looked unrealistic so i used ext. bicubics to do the end corners of the flag (so they curled around on themselves).

I found that neither method looked very good on its own but combined they looked great!

[Dan Marbrook]

I was forced to do such a trick some time ago.
But the whole idea was eventually not to do a real photorealistic flag, rather a graphic kind of thing.

I remembered i used a multi layer displacement texture, for different waves, major and minor ones. Plus Extended bicubic.

At the end i remember, i also retouched the image to make it look like cloth, rather than a clean image. (You know, bumps, transparency, etc).

Sorry, can’t be more helpful.

Sebastjan Rijavec
Inferno artist.

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