Wind and Blizzards
The use of a wind machine is sufficiently obvious to require no explanation here, but there are some other methods and techniques that may not be generally known.
Snow blizzard
For a studio scene in which there is a snow blizzard sequence, it is usual to set up a number of wind machines to operate in different directions. If the front one blows from right to left, the rear one should blow from left to right. This gives a richer texture than if they were blowing in the same direction.
A suitable material for driven snow is granulated expanded polystyrene fed into the air-stream in front of the blades. The effect can be augmented by smoke fed in from behind the blades (the centrifugal force of the blades widens the cloud of ...
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