Uploaded October 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this final tutorial of the Understanding Volumes series, 3D artist Yingying Z teaches you how to create clouds in Maya’s Bifrost plugin.
Links:
• The “descend” compound: areadownloads.autodesk.com/wdm/maya/compound_descend.zip
• Iterations in Bifrost: youtube.com/watch?v=Rj5L7azXogo

00:00 – Intro
00:38 – Creating a cloud using “advect_field”
07:36 – Elaborating the cloud through iterations
11:54 – Creating scattered clouds