So in an attempt to motivate myself I have started mucking around with fume fx. I have been interested in it for a long time.
I'm really keen on how to do fire and smoke in fume so I can render out some kickass textures to be used in UDK.
anyway I booted it up today and had my first go at making something in fume fx
It's really amazing how easy it is to make something look good :). Still could use some work on smoke colour etc though.
Also I recently bought the book elemental magic which is all about creating 2d special effects. It has a lot of concepts that still translate over to 3d and the thing i love the most is throughout the book they deconstruct each effect they do and show how everything works when compared to nature.
I'd reccomend it to any fx artist
http://www.amazon.ca/Elemental-Magic-Special-Effects-Animation/dp/0240811631/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1314535214&sr=8-1
