adding smoke/destruction

[Efexone]

I've tried searching for a tutorial without luck... need to insert distant billowing smoke into a clean horizon/sky, kinda like a distant battle is going on beyond the horizon. any help finding a relevant tutorial that will lead me in the right direction is welcome. mainly need to figure out how to actually create the billowing smoke more then actually compositing and color matching it to the scene.

edit..

i've made some progress generating it with particular.

 

[Tarzy]

Try this tutorial at VideoCopilot as an alternative to (or in conjunction with) Particular:

http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/animating_a_still/

Cheers

 

[Noel Evans]

Yes check out Andrews site (per Tarzy above), he has a number of tutorials involving smoke effects made with particular. Should give you a good place to start. BTW I love particular.