Particles and HD instance work

[monovich]

Howdy all,

Here is a spot I finished recently with the crew at Oh Hello in Seattle. I did the particle puzzle piece work where the pieces form objects.

I originally tried to do this with LW particles, but couldn't figure it out that way. I ended up cracking the nut with HD instance (yay!) by attaching puzzle pieces to the vertexes. I made a morph map of the ojbects exploded with jitter (in modeler), then used Smartmorph with an effector to control the explosion/dispersion of the objects.

The girl was actually sourced from Quidam and then animated in LW with the basic Quidam rig which worked pretty well for a total character animating newbie like me.

I rendered it out in 9.5 and it was comped by the Oh Hello crew in AE with the additional loose particles added in Particular.

cheers!

-sf

if anyone knows how to embed flickr video in the forums let me know. otherwise here is the link:

http://flickr.com/photos/monovich/2989138421/

[monovich]

a wireframe

[ivanze]

Excellent work!!

[JBT27]

Hmm.....very good indeed, impressive and stylish work :thumbsup:

Julian.

[UnCommonGrafx]

Impressive. Very cool style.
Well done.

[Netvudu]

You are my hero, mono.
It has a really pro edge to it. IMO this is the real life everyday stuff that really shows if someone is capable of doing jobs or not...

...and you certainly are.

[Mitja]

Impressive! The best thing I've seen on these forums for a long time!

[wesball]

Yes. Very cool.

Would like to see you go into more detail on how you accomplished it. It's a very cool exploding effect.

[Larry_g1s]

Very cool stuff. I liked the look, style, and fx (exploding). Nicely done.

[geo_n]

cool stuff. this is the kind of work lw can do faster and simpler I think.
Which part was hd instance was used or how was it used?

[akademus]

Sweet stuff. You really made a good usage of HD.
Congratulations

[bluerider]

monovich,
Sense of color and design, superb as always.

[monovich]

Hey Guys, thanks for the kind words. I just want to make sure I'm clear that I didn't make this whole spot, this was really and Oh Hello production, I just helped with this FX stuff. As a freelancer, sometimes you run the show, sometimes you lend a hand. :)

Since there seems to be a bit of interest, I downloaded the Camtasia Studio demo and made a tutorial. I'm amazed how easy Camtasia is, by the way! We'll see if my server is okay with the extra traffic.

Hopefully you guys can improve the technique here. As you can see it really only works for blowing up vertex based objects, but you could probably have a lot of fun with multiple effectors and maybe some HVs, etc. Wish I had more time to experiment!

cheers!

-Stephen

http://www.monovich.com/tut/Smartmorph%20Explosions.html

[prometheus]

Impressive..

I couldn´t reach your tutorial thou.
This stuff should be up on www.vfxcast.com along with all other tutes that is there.

Michael

[monovich]

hmm. not sure why that QT linnk didn't work. I uploaded the file and it worked then I just checked and the filesize was zero. I reuploaded and it works now.

alternately: vfxcast. good luck with the compression on that video though!

http://www.vfxcast.com/media/1627/Smartmorph-Explosions/

[Larry_g1s]

Thanks for the tut monovich. You can also down load TechSmith's (makers of Camtasia) Jing. It's like Camtasia lite. Easy to use, free, but only will record 5 minutes max of video/mic. It's what I used to do those videos of the roof tile tool in LWCAD v3.

[akademus]

hmm. not sure why that QT linnk didn't work. I uploaded the file and it worked then I just checked and the filesize was zero. I reuploaded and it works now.

alternately: vfxcast. good luck with the compression on that video though!

http://www.vfxcast.com/media/1627/Smartmorph-Explosions/

Not working... and I hav to register to vfxcast to see it and I hate doing that. Thanks for doing tutorial anyway, I hope I'll see it.

p.s. if you have difficulties hosting (or bandwith) pm me and I can host it for you.

Cheers

[prometheus]

thanks monovitch...Thats a good buffy dusting:)

the quality was a little bit horrible thou..but we were warned.
what format did you save and export in camtasia studio? and what format did you upload to vfx cast..Im sure you could get better quality once you get used to it, Im sure splinegod could recomend some settings and formats.

Yeah ..we all have to Register, that´s life.
not sure if you can get better quality uploads on www.vimeo.com

Oh by the way...Is that smartmorph from pavel olas plugins, the commercial one?

Michael

[Kuzey]

The first link worked for me and boy that was just beautiful!!

Many thanks Monovich :thumbsup::thumbsup:

Kuzey

[flakester]

Ace work Dude! :thumbsup:
I'll be checking out your tutorial later I reckon. :D

flakester.