Lava

[sk8jgt9]

i need to know how to make lava weather it is cg or practical.

[jburas]

i need to know how to make lava weather it is cg or practical.

What do you mean? Did you mean lava "water"?

Proper spelling and punctuation always helps.

[Zombeast]

What do you mean? Did you mean lava "water"?

Proper spelling and punctuation always helps.

It also helps if you can read, you little shit.

[Captain SteveBeard]

Describe the scene for us so we can give you the best way to make lava.

[jburas]

It also helps if you can read, you little shit.

I was just confused because I don't know what lava weather is. I'd like to help, but I need to clearly know what he wants.

[sk8jgt9]

ok first off i meant to say either practical or cg

second it is a scene where a person falls into lava and as they are falling you can see it underneath them

[jburas]

Practical effects are always better. Typically movies simulate lava by shining a really bright red/orange light through water. Take a look at Terminator 2 when T1000 falls into the big vat.

But if you're going to shoot from below, as if the camera is IN the lava... well lava is an opaque substance so it won't really look real. Maybe you could add some milk and make it look less clear, but theoretically you shouldn't be able to see through lava at all.

[jedijake]

you should take a sheet of glass build foam fake mountains on it create a mixture of glue read and orange foosd coloring and water

take the glass sheet with the fake mountains on it put a light underneath it and poor the mixture a little lower hen the top of the sheet

[UndergroundLairProductions]

Practical effects are always better. Typically movies simulate lava by shining a really bright red/orange light through water. Take a look at Terminator 2 when T1000 falls into the big vat.

But if you're going to shoot from below, as if the camera is IN the lava... well lava is an opaque substance so it won't really look real. Maybe you could add some milk and make it look less clear, but theoretically you shouldn't be able to see through lava at all.
They also put a bunch of darkly covered foam in the water to make it seem thicker and less clear. Ideally, you want to cut to a different angle almost instantly when somebody falls into lava. Otherwise, the illusion doesn't work.
A quick search of the forums turned up another thread on this subject, and I found this video on there:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5LEDcTCdr8

I noticed that they also had a lot of smoke and stuff floating around.