CartoonSmart's Flash 8 Tutorial on Smoke and Clouds tutorial teaches how to illustrate and animate realistic clouds from scratch. Using some of simplest Flash tools (like the paint brush) you can quickly brush in some simple shapes then use the new Flash 8 filters to blur them into a smoke effect. Shown here are Night Clouds, Day Clouds, and a Billowing Smoke Effect. Linked below are some variations, starting with
lightning clouds
,
red-devilish looking clouds
, and some
creepy ghost like clouds
. This video tutorial is for Flash 8 only, and is recorded in high quality Quicktime.