Houdini / Free compositing resources

Smoke.
Ready for your comp.

Eight smoke simulations I created and rendered in Houdini, available free to download for your compositing work.

RGB lightingAlpha includedFree download
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Working with the renders

Choose a channel.
Make it your own.

The smoke is lit with red, green, and blue lights. Isolate a channel as a grayscale pass or matte, then adjust it to suit your composite. Each render also includes a main alpha map for separating the effect from the background.

R

Extract the red channel

G

Extract the green channel

B

Extract the blue channel

α

Use the supplied alpha

The render collection

Eight starting points.

Preview on the page · Download through Google Drive

Download buttons open the original footage files on Google Drive. Use the downloaded files for compositing; the embedded videos are previews. Usage details are included in the original video descriptions.

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