A witches Brew - Animation

[stevecullum]

I finally got around to finishing a little animation I've been working on a while. (Obviously could do more do it, but got to end somewhere). It started life as a bit of testing - not really planned to make anything of it, but one thing led to another and I expanded on it somewhat

Animation is keyframed and Blender provided the cloth, fire and smoke sim. Rendered in Octane.

https://youtu.be/JhdnG4c35NE

[OFF]

In my opinion, the hair is too mobile, in reality it moves more gently, especially gray hair. There is one more small moment - before a woman, who invents Sprite, in difficult field conditions, beats the boiler with her hands - for a moment her hands cling to an invisible object in the air, while the body moves up and slightly to the right. In general, good animation.

[stevecullum]

In my opinion, the hair is too mobile, in reality it moves more gently, especially gray hair. There is one more small moment - before a woman, who invents Sprite, in difficult field conditions, beats the boiler with her hands - for a moment her hands cling to an invisible object in the air, while the body moves up and slightly to the right. In general, good animation.

Thanks for your feedback - much appreciated. I didn’t notice any issue with the arms at the time, but I suspect any invisible object clinging is due to having IK arms. What I should have done in retrospect is to switch to FK after the stirring actions. As for the hair - it was a total pain and I wish LW had a dedicated dynamic hair system. But I just went with settings that didn’t let the spline guides go through her face!

[OFF]

I completely agree - the dynamics of hair in the LW at the moment is a very difficult matter.

[Kryslin]

Yeah, bullet dynamics with guides is a rather finicky beast. One setting off, and things go haywire.
Getting set up is not easy, either.

[stevecullum]

Yeah, bullet dynamics with guides is a rather finicky beast. One setting off, and things go haywire.
Getting set up is not easy, either.

SO...during me looking into getting a better hair sim next time, I've worked out a multi step process/faff to getting dynamic hair guides from Blender and into Layout (Crappy proof of concept attached). So although shading will have to be done with FFX, the actual sim should in theory be more accurate!

BlenderHairInLW.mov

[Kryslin]

The next time I try to use dynamics on hair guides, I'm probably going to use bullet dynamics on bones instead. Yeah, there will be a lot of bones, but hopefully it will be a lot more stable, too.

[stevecullum]

The next time I try to use dynamics on hair guides, I'm probably going to use bullet dynamics on bones instead. Yeah, there will be a lot of bones, but hopefully it will be a lot more stable, too.

Never used that feature, so it will be interesting to see the results!