that fire line and.. spear screw.. is it mesh line??? sorry, clumsy English.. then.. all images are the sequence??? question like this will be an example... have a good day!
damn, I guess hobo was a bad example. that's depressing! well, maybe this prophesied collapse will create a landscape where it's viable.. can only hope!
Try making custom brushes in Photoshop, and using the brush settings to scatter/rotate the strokes. For example http://www.idigitalemotion.com/tutorials/guest/custombrush/custombrush.html
That's because a theory can be disproven with a single example and there's no need to dig out games like Gish or Uplink that most gamers haven't even heard of.
Hmmm, they all worked for me. Some of the scenes seem out of place, but they do help demonstrate the movement. Example: Dandelions coming out of a wall