Official Fire effect

Let's open a new thread to discuss about Fire!
How do you imagine fire in this toony and tasty world?

Here is my first vision for the campfire:


What do you think about it?

Some references I used and help me to build this proposal
https://realtimevfx.com/t/sketch-10-jordanov/4273/11
https://www.webtech.co.jp/blog/products/spritestudio/10211/
https://cyangamedev.wordpress.com/2020/08/04/fire-shader-breakdown/

 

@treivize This looks wonderfully toony.

We would also need fire emitted by the chick. Either from it's mouth - like a dragon or from its plumage, I think. We would have to be careful with the fire coming from the chicks plumage to avoid the impression the chicken is burning like wood.

 

You're on... fire
And thanks for opening a thread, I linked it to the corresponding card on the roadmap.

Regarding your effect, I think it's a good start, but it doesn't look very cartoon due to the many layers that overlap with transparency.
You quote one really great breakdown:

which seems to go in the direction I had in mind, i.e. using a flipbook of frames to simulate the dissolve of the flames, and not transparency.

I could also give it a shot at drawing these frames, I've done something like this in the past and I don't mind!
https://twitter.com/CiroContns/status/936383928553832450?s=20

(although in this example I use transparency for the smoke, I was tired and didn't want to draw another flipbook)

 

Thanks for the feedback @cirocontinisio and the direction to follow.
Your toon flame VFX is really great! It feels like Disney's style
I am learning a lot contributing to this project that is so a great idea. But I am not really familiar building effect by manually drawing frames.

I tried a different procedural approach based again on transparency dissolve but offset using discreet increment to simulate flipbook effect. I have the feeling it may be more aligned with the direction.

Again, I am enjoying playing with assets to create the atmosphere to showcase my contribution Et voilà!



The current shader graph is a mess, still working in progress

 

I merged the PR, but also left some comments! https://github.com/UnityTechnologies/open-project-1/pull/172#issuecomment-725695805
(you can reply here if you prefer)