atmosphere · 1 recipe
Smoke Effect
A localized source produces coherent curling particulate flow, distinguished from a uniform weather veil.
Selected recipe
Smoke
This is the default recipe for the Localized Smoke Plume family.
Free short AI video prompt
A starter line you can copy. The full timed recipe, still-image and production prompts are on the shot card.
Prompt rule: Keep the plume attached to its local emitter while advecting and dissipating downstream. Reducing the source must stop new smoke first; existing smoke cannot vanish instantly.
Smoke: A localized source produces coherent curling particulate flow, distinguished from a uniform weather veil. Keep the subject readable; motivate camera and light.
Technique guide
- When to use
- Reach for Smoke when you need this effect: A localized source produces coherent curling particulate flow, distinguished from a uniform weather veil.
- How it works
- Keep the plume attached to its local emitter while advecting and dissipating downstream. Reducing the source must stop new smoke first; existing smoke cannot vanish instantly.
- Common mistakes
- If the result does not follow this rule, it is not this technique: Keep the plume attached to its local emitter while advecting and dissipating downstream. Do not change multiple variables at once so the effect becomes unreadable.
How to read this page
Smoke Effect is one technique in Atmosphere. The definition states the single mechanism the frame has to show. The technique guide covers when to use it, the steps, the usual mistakes, how it differs from the neighbors, and what a successful take looks like.
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Prompt versions
Same technique, different prompts. Version A is the latest prompt; older versions are the exact prompts that kept clips were made from. Each version shows every model that used it.
Version A · latest：Potter watching smoke from a kiln vent
Version A · Scene of this version (English, verbatim)
A potter watches a thin wisp escape from a cooled kiln vent in a staged workshop scene.
The full prompt of every version comes with the member recipe.
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Recipe
8 seconds · single take
A Tibetan mountain monastery at dawn, 1950: a young monk in maroon robes watches the thin juniper smoke rising from the vent of the stone incense burner, then closes its small iron flap before the morning prayers.
Shot cards
The full recipe for Smoke is a shot card
The full recipe for Smoke is a shot card. The start and end frames, timed action, lighting and color specs, a camera parameter table, copy-ready still-image and video prompts and negatives are open to GrokCine Pro members on the web.
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More in Atmosphere
References
Sources we studied for this technique. External links; we don't embed them.
Articles & definitions
- Wikipedia: Smoke
Wikipedia · Web
Smoke comes from a source, rises with heat, curls and thins as it mixes.
Videos
- Smoke machine: a curling plume through the light
@ItsHenryDanisch · 2020-09-14 · X
Smoke machine used for a curling plume through a light.
Images & stills
- No Film School: haze, fog, steam or smoke?
@nofilmschool · 2019-07-29 · X
Haze vs fog vs steam vs smoke: which to use and how each moves.
- No CGI: practical smoke in every night scene
@GF_Capital · 2018-06-02 · X
All night scenes used a practical smoke effect, no CGI.
- American Cinematographer: how smoke and fog change contrast
@AmericanCine · 2018-11-08 · X
How smoke and fog change contrast; smoke from a source curls and moves with air.
- Lord of the Rings: smoke reveals the shaft of light
@hanoverpictures · 2018-04-10 · X
Smoke fills the room so a shaft of light becomes visible (LOTR).