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Nice video guys. Nicely done indeed 🙂

I like the way you used David Gray's This Year's Love also.

The bomb explosion is far too uniform like an oval cloud expanding. But I can probably guess that is one very hard thing to 'model' properly though.

Koing
 
Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
Pretty good 🙂

Best I can do is a really crappy canyon flythrough in bryce. available here

How long did that take to render? What did you do it with?
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Render time was somewhere in the neighborhood of 3 hours on only the stuff we used in the final edit. Total rendering of everythign we rendered is probably a copule days worth; but things were corrected and fixed, motion smoothed, camera movements refinded, etc...

Rendering was on a server farm, for the majority, in the ACCAD facilities @ OSU, some stuff was done on single machines but that was kept to a minimum!



 
Originally posted by: Koing
Nice video guys. Nicely done indeed 🙂

I like the way you used David Gray's This Year's Love also.

The bomb explosion is far too uniform like an oval cloud expanding. But I can probably guess that is one very hard thing to 'model' properly though.

Koing
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The explosion actually wasnt modeled at all, that was one of the procedural aspects of the animation that satisfied the programming requirements of the class. Quote from the project website:

The mushroom cloud itself was procedurally generated using a spherical particle emitter and a 2-dimensional fluid. The script projected each particle's x and z positions onto the fluid and set the velocities of the particles based upon the field generated by the fluid. The positions of each particle were then cached for real-time playback. The glow effect during the explosion was generated by a procedurally animated color ramp. This effect was achieved using a simple animation expression. The spreading smoke was done through the use of a cube shaped volume fog. The density of the fog was animated using expressions.
 
Originally posted by: fiip7
Originally posted by: Koing
Nice video guys. Nicely done indeed 🙂

I like the way you used David Gray's This Year's Love also.

The bomb explosion is far too uniform like an oval cloud expanding. But I can probably guess that is one very hard thing to 'model' properly though.

Koing
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The explosion actually wasnt modeled at all, that was one of the procedural aspects of the animation that satisfied the programming requirements of the class. Quote from the project website:

The mushroom cloud itself was procedurally generated using a spherical particle emitter and a 2-dimensional fluid. The script projected each particle's x and z positions onto the fluid and set the velocities of the particles based upon the field generated by the fluid. The positions of each particle were then cached for real-time playback. The glow effect during the explosion was generated by a procedurally animated color ramp. This effect was achieved using a simple animation expression. The spreading smoke was done through the use of a cube shaped volume fog. The density of the fog was animated using expressions.
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OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I see. If it has to satisfy some requirement then you have no control over that then.

So you guys got any 'next' project coming up yet? Or just brain storming ideas?

Koing
 
Honestly, I hadn't thought about it... One of our group memebers is graduating, another is applying for an internship @ pixar, another is looking for game design jobs and the last two of us will be graduating in the fall, but I like your idea, Maybe as time permits we will see if we can come out with something new... "as time permits" being the key words... I can't see it happening or starting to happen in the next few weeks... We'll see...
 
In terms of animations that?s entirely up in the air. It took us 2-3 weeks to button town the topic of this animation. We started out with the 5 of us coming up with a couple ideas, and anything from good vs. evil with football teams to worms scrambling around on a tennis court... we took aspects for a couple ideas and buttoned down a storyboard. You can see the initial story boards on our website and you can see that we cut a ton out as we moved along and realized that we were being over ambitious. Still we ended up with over 2 minutes of animation...

If you are referring to what I'm going to do instead of working on an animation its back to work as a systems architect/developer and school work until I graduate!
 
I see.

I was wondering a bit of both. The group and you.

Me I'm going to graduate with a BSc in CS and hopefully build a career out for myself in Business/ Finance or maybe even IT or something like that. Why didn't I do a Business/ Finance degree? Because I thought it would suck to learn about that stuff through lectures and such and I'm more interested in CS as a degree. But I don't fancy programming for a job. Some bits fine but not the majority of my job.

I have an interview with 3M on the 22nd March in their Finance department doing some Accounting stuff and a bit of IT stuff also. Sounds good to me so hopefully it will go well.

Koing
 
Originally posted by: Koing
Nice video guys. Nicely done indeed 🙂

I like the way you used David Gray's This Year's Love also.

The bomb explosion is far too uniform like an oval cloud expanding. But I can probably guess that is one very hard thing to 'model' properly though.

Koing
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One of the major reasons I chose to go with David Gray was because right before we went into sound editing @ 6am in the morning we had watched The Girl Next Door while our stuff was rendering. I remember that song being used also in Wimbeldon and some other movies I cant name atm. I felt that it was fitting for that one scene. Plus, it reminded me of Elisha Cuthbert LOL...

Overall, the music and soundeffects do need some major polish. I know fiip and I were both tired as well as the other team members. Some of us had 18 hours in while others had 24+ hours in a row. At that time we just wanted to have some sort of rough sound overall for the animation. The transactions do really need some work...

 
Originally posted by: Viper GTS
Still downloading but I have to say this:

That's one hell of a pipe that's sitting on.

Viper GTS
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bwahahaha... thanks too bad I am going to loose it when I graduate this quarter... i am going to miss them speeds.
 
Originally posted by: Baked
Dude, that worm has syphilis.

But gotta give you props for using David Gray's This Year's Love. Good job man.
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HAhaha.. That worm does has syphilis! We started out trying to make it a marble texture, but we ended up spanning it out a little to give it some cool looking spots. Maya's texturing is pretty forgiving and worked pretty well. Only things I need to take from this is that create reference locations are your friend when stuff is moving around with textures!!!
 
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