excerpt of aerial combat in LW

[filmjeff]

This is a short segment from a documentary about my father's wartime experiences, "Nothing Has Been Forgotten." The combat footage was modeled and rendered in Lightwave, comped in After Effects.

 

[Bill Carey]

Looks good, might catch the whole thing later on.

 

[prometheus]

A lot of work there, some nice stuff, but I think the overall lighting is a bit off ..in regards to the mix of environment and the color, diffuse, and h9ow GI is looking on the combat planes.
old tech with the hv smoke and explosions, would have been sweet if you could have used fluids instead.
Some particle pop out in the beginning, some parts of fire smoke are decent, some are lacking, sprites is used I can see.

@filmjeff
What did you struggle the most with here?

Sorry...
if you only have Lightwave 2015, sprites or legacy voxels is the only thing you could use of course.

 

[adrian]

Agree with what Prometheus says above. I would add that I really liked the combat sequences especially the cockpit views as it brought everything to life. The black HV explosion bubbles were a little offputting just because they were so "hyper voxelish!"

Really good work on the aircaraft animations... it is amazing to think what people did during the war with little to no thought about their own safety.