Volcano Update

[johnnyh66]

As suggested, I added an orange light to the mouth of the volcan and some molten lava chunks flying out.
please download the .mov file and let me know what you think would make it better... thanks.

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[oxyg3n]

Helly Johnny,

First thing I would add is more material flying out from the volcano. From what I remember from pbs documentaries the material just keeps shooting out, like a broken faucet.

Next, I think that the material should be less globby, maybe a little smaller, cause at the moment it looks really large, as compared to the scale of your volcano.

That is all I can think of for the moment:)

[Jimzip]

That looks really cool!
Is the flow all Hypervoxels?

Yeah I agree, the parts are a little large, but they do look very good.
Keep going, I wanna' see the final product!

Jimzip:D

[johnnyh66]

oxyg3n: I think your right about more stuff flying out. Last night I added a second smoke plume which is much darker & thicker. I think I'll scale down the chunks that are currently there and add a sort of particle fountain.

Jimzip: Thanks. The flow is geometry with a moving texture. The parts that actually move are morphed + the moving texture.

This project is finished for the client but I'm going to keep at it for my portfolio.

I was thinking about adding thick smoke trails to the flying chunks, what do you guys think?

[oxyg3n]

Hello,

I think that it will look nice with thick smoke trails on the larger particles and perhaps smaller trails on the small ones. I dont know what your render times are looking like, so it might be necessary to have smoke on just the larger ones.

[Doran]

Hey Johnny,

I had the interesting experience of living in the shadow of the Volcano, Sakuragima in Kagoshima, Kyushu Japan for over a year. I saw many explosions during that time... not full blow eruptions but explosive enough that stuff blew out of the opening.

The one thing that the explosions I saw all had in common was ash... lots of clouds of smoky ash. You could tell when there was going to be an explosion actually the ash would stop for a day or two and then booom!

Good work so far.

[mufty]

I'd agree with oxyg3n in that the airborne particles could be smaller and more numerous.