Towering Inferno

Towering Inferno

Materials

 

 

 

Open a document in Paintshop pro 670 x 450 transparent

Paint with color #79A2DF. Rename the layer Sky

Copy and paste the buildings as new layers

Pick Freehand Selection Tool – Point to Point

Select a portion like this as pavement

Fill with color #808080

With Raster Deform Tool – Free Mode

Adjust the right side building, according to pavement

Crop some grass from any picture

Stand on Sky layer

Copy and paste the grass as new layer

Stand on Pavement layer & click in the blue portion

to select like this

Stand on Grass layer

Layers – New Raster Layer

Paint with color #2D2B2B

Selections – Select None

Duplicate the multistoried building 9 times

Rename the layers A1, A2….. A7, A8 & A9

Stand on A1 layer, close A2 to A5 layers

Select the window of a floor

with Freehand Selection Tool

Effects – Plugins – Eye Candy 3.1 – Smoke

Use this setting

 Effects – Plugins – Eye Candy 4000 – Fire
Use this setting

 Keep the selection

Stand on the layer A2

Effects – Plugins – Eye Candy 3.1 – Smoke

Change the Random Seed to 2

Do not touch anything else

Effects – Plugins – Eye Candy 4000 – Fire

Click on Random Seed once

Do not touch anything else

Like this stand on A3 and change Random Seed

Now stand on A4 layer, close A5 & A6

Press Shift on keyboard and select these

Use the same Plugins

Just change the value shown with red circle

Apply this in the layers A5 & A6

Like previous change the Random Seed

In the layers A7, A8 & A9

Use Eye Candy 3.1 Smoke only, with previous setting

Stand in the top layer

Copy & paste the Fire Engine several times as new layers

With Move Tool arrange like this

Rename these layers FB 3 (each layer)

Close these layers

Copy & paste the truck with ladder several times as new layers

With Move Tool arrange like this

Rename these layers FB 1 (each layer)

Open the truck with ladder

Image – Mirror

Copy & paste several times as new layers

With Move Tool arrange like this

Rename these layers FB 2 (each layer)

Close these layers, open top layer of FB 3

Copy & paste the twin fireman as new layer

Below the 1st FB 3 layer few times

With Move Tool arrange like this

Move them towards left a little in each layer

Copy & paste the single fireman as new layer few times

You can use as many firemen as you like

Move them a little upward in each layer

Stand in the top layer

Layers – New Raster Layer

With Rectangle Selection Tool draw a selection like this

Paint with color #E6F4F4

Selections – Select None

Adjust – Blur – Gaussian Blur 1.00

With Raster Deform Tool rotate and place like this

Erase the excess portion if required

 Layers – Duplicate, Image - Mirror
With Raster Deform Tool rotate and place like this

We are done

Now animation

Close all layers except

Buildings, Road, Grass & Pavement

Open A1

Edit – Copy Merged

Paste in the Animation Shop As New Animation

Then close A1, open A2 then A3

Edit – Copy Merged

Paste in the Animation Shop After Current Frame

You have to continue this process

A1, A2 & A3

Open & close FB3 one by one

At the last layer of FB3 Close A1, A2 & A3

Open A4 then A5 then A6

You have to continue this process

A4, A5 & A6

Open & close the firemen

Open & close FB1 & FB2

At the last layer of FB1 open the 1st water jet

At the last layer of FB2 open the 2nd water jet

Remember you have to continue A3, A4 & A5 all the time

After some time close A4, A5 & A6

Open A7 the A8 then A9

Then close A7, A8 & A9

Also close water jets