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RayFire Tracer & Thinkin Particles tutorial

RayFire Tracer & TP

RayFire Tracer & TP RayFire Tracer piped into TP after breaking by map. The rifts are then volume broken and tiny debris comes off of edges but is not part of the SC simulation. The setup is stupid simple yet has nice detail and RayFire Tracer is blazing fast fracturing it in that detail (multi threaded) and already provides you with IDs for edges and fragments! How to use RayFire Tracer check here: youtube.com/watch?v=L9ynm8U04hc Note to self: Some pieces are lingering in mid air. a PSelect > ParticeDie will take care of that. incendii.com/training/?p=629 84min RayFire Tracer & Thinking Particles tutorial now available volatilevfx.com Have a good weekend y'all!

Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2 Cinematic

Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. 2 Cinematic – Mini MakingOf

Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. 2 Cinematic – Mini MakingOf Some elements i did R&D on for Luxx-Studios.com Full cinematic can be watched here: gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-debut-hawx-2/701517 Done by luxx-studios.com. Property of Tom Clancy's + Ubisoft. The task was to prepare scene setups for vfx artists at Luxx Studios that can easily be modified to meet final needs. The Hummer was pre-fractured with RayFire and then blown up with particle flow toolbox2 and fumefx. The "Angel of Death" is particle driven with cylindical simple sources with lots of radial and directional force and spinning geometry to simulate rotor turbulence.

Avatar Movie VFX Home tree holographic table

Incendii Film Reel 2011/1

Incendii Film Reel 2011/1This is my recent Film Reel 2011/1. As you might know i split up my reels into Film and TV/Commercial/RnD. The Commercial reel can be found here: vimeo.com/24622443 This is my Film work and some selected highlights. It features recent work from "Priest", "AVATAR", Priest, Ridley Scott's "Robin Hood", The A-Team, G.I. Joe-Rise of Cobra, Dragonball:Evolution, Niko & The Way to the Stars and Angel Camouflaged as well as Music video work for the Black Eyed Peas and Willow Smith and TV shows like "House MD". 720p for your viewing pleasure 🙂 All movie scenes are most likely a team effort. Shot breakdowns: incendii.com/gallery/Incendii_film_breakdown2011-1.jpg Thanks for watching and thanks to every artist who participated in making this possible!

Loewenzahn Movie VFX

Loewenzahn – Das Kinoabenteuer (Rock impact)

Loewenzahn – Das Kinoabenteuer (Rock impact)In late 2010 I worked together with LuxxStudios once again for round about 10 days on and off to create dynamics for a rock rolling downhill and impacting into a cottage. The simulation was based off if my earlier Box#2/#3 rolling stone test further back in my vimeo profile where you can read a bit more about the under the hood stuff. The cottage impact was shot practically and the angle doesn't reveal the rock breaking through the wood so for the impact all it took was some generic debris to make it all look a nit more dramatic 🙂 All final shading and compositing done by LuxxStudios. Old rolling stone test: vimeo.com/16520425

21 Jump Street Movie VFX

21 Jump Street – Limo Flip MAKING OF

21 Jump Street – Limo Flip MAKING OF This is the making of from 2 of the shots i worked on with DuMonde VFX in New Orleans for 21 Jump Street, the movie remake of the 80s tv show 🙂 Initial RnD involved deforming of the car as well. For the actual shots II got animation delivered. FumeFX for various elements like the main explosion, dedicated window fire, secondary ground fire, etc. Procedural and hand painted burn maps and vanilla PFlow for window and secondary fire. Rendered in VRay. This was done in a month on and off, probably more around 2 weeks real work time.

SUVA risk - Procelain insurance commercial

SUVA risk – Procelain insurance commercial

SUVA risk – Procelain insurance commercial Swiss commercial for an insurance company. I left some of the voice over in so you get an impression of the final spot (it's Swiss-German dialect, he talks about how fast the accident happened and what all was broken and how expensive the treatment got without insurance). It's a bit dragging admittedly but it's a slow pace commercial after all! After the final spot you see some animations and camera angles that didn't make the cut. In case anyone is wondering what the top right counter is: That's the amount of money all his surgeries did cost in Swiss Franks... The basic mesh was delivered from client who also rendered the final image in Maya. Fragmentation was done in RayFire and simulated at regular speed forward (triggered by a sphere for activation of sleeping objects), then time reversed in max and stretched by 200%. Some hero pieces are hand animated because there were special timing requests, like the head has to go last, e.g. everything was baked out of 3DSmax and then ported to Maya via FBX to be rendered on client side. Quick little project. around a week's work on the side... Done for Recom Farmhouse, London (recomfarmhouse.com)