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Simulations like fire,smoke,explosions,etc.
Battle of Vienna – RnD and Master Scenes
Battle of Vienna – RnD and Master Scenes I was approached by BlowFishVFX to help them out with some canon fire and dirt hit/mortar impact setups for a polish movie about the "Battle of Vienna" when the turks sieged vienna: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vienna The international/english title is "September Eeven, 1683" in case you wonder. My part was RnD and master scene setups in less then a week time to create ready made sims/setups that could be popped to objects in scene. Every effect was linked to a master point helper and could be merged and scaled and positioned into place where needed. Like a ready made library item. The canon smoke is pretty violent and noisy. That's due to the windy reference of practical shots. The first few rows of canon would be practical. Some are too violent but that was RnD only 😉 Overall the look was more defined by the practical elements in order to match! Also please pardon my shitty canon animation... Same goes goes for the dirt hits. They were composed in with practical effects like wood bursting, dust and ground/dirt charges that were filmed practical on set. The trailer can be watched here: youtube.com/watch?v=ieF14f_qnhc official movie site: bitwapodwiedniem-film.pl/ imdb site: imdb.com/title/tt1899285/ some behind the scenes in polish: carrycoalstonewcastle.tumblr.com/post/33160933184/bitwa-pod-wiedniem-czy-tez-bardziej-chwytliwy
David Guetta – Just One Last Time – Smoke Stack Mini MakingOf
I simulated some smoke stacks that were mixed with comp footage for the latest David Guetta music video. The sims
Incendii TV-Commercial-RnD Reel 2013-1
Incendii TV-Commercial-RnD Reel 2013-1Like us on Facebook 🙂 tinyurl.com/664q5z8 I haven't done a new reel in over 2 years (which is a good thing, i am busy 🙂 ) but over the holidays i sat down finally and made a new one. Enjoy! This reel shows work on new Commercials for Coors Light, HTC/Droid, Qualcomm "SnapDragon", British Gas and others as well as some short Movie work and movie R&D, TV shows like HOUSE MD and The Asset, music videos for David Guetta, Black Eyed Peas and Willow Smith and portions of RnD and viral youtube videos. A new film reel is coming at some point as well but it takes its time to gather over 3 minutes of brand new film material 😉 . Most of the movies and game cinematics i worked on recently are not even out yet. I sneaked in 3 smaller movie gigs however 😉 Shot breakdown: incendii.com/gallery/Incendii_tv-commercial-rnd_breakdown2013-1.jpg For wireframes, viewport previews and all things "Making Ofs" please check out my vimeo profile with 175 videos: vimeo.com/psychosilence Thanks for watching and thanks to every artist who participated in making this possible! Websites: Incendii.com Incendii.com/training 3Delicious.com Meet me on social networks: Twitter: twitter.com/ars_incendii linkedin.com/in/3delicious vimeo.com/psychosilence psychosilence.cgsociety.org imdb.com/name/nm2957221
League of Legends Game Cinematic – Shot elements
My "League of Legends" Game Cinematic - Shot elements while i was at BLUR studios last August to October. The
Star Trek – Into Darkness Making Of
Star Trek – Into Darkness Making OfThis a little making of from the shots i touched on Star Trek - Into Darkness. I created elements and libraries for 13 shots for AtomicFiction. Mostly for the breaking apart machine room. Busted pipes, bursting steam, exploding valves, all that kind of good stuff 🙂 Hero elements were simulated in the real shots. Smaller elements were simulated individually and prepared for easy merging. I then uploaded my scene files and caches to AtomicFiction so layout artists could pick elements that suited the situation from the library and pop them into the scene where needed. The second big task were the "Arroyos". A geysir type tectonic activity on the planet where Bones and Eve disarm the Photon-Torpedo. Again here i created around 30 library sims that the supervisor Kevin Bailey could pick from and wemixed and matched what fit best. Lastly there was Kirk to be put to rest in cryo sleep. Everything is 3dsmax, FumeFX and VRay. All sorts of sources (particle, simple, object). I would like to add that Star Trek was a suuuper fun experience together with AtomicFiction. Super cool team!
Mercedes Benz CLA R&D
RnD I did recently on a Mercedes Benz CLA commercial in space. The final spot went a different direction but
Tyrant Ep. 108 Plane explosion
Tyrant Ep. 108 Plane explosionThis was for a TV show where things can change on a dime until it airs. Same happened here. A stock explosion was used in the end for an other wise fine element due to no time to resim. Some of the sims didn't turn out bad though and I haven't uploaded anything in a bit. So here is one for you 🙂 Base setup is TP. Fragmenter by 2 lights back to back since it had to be a double explosion! 2 bursts following each other with debris hitting the ground by the end of the shot. Small and extra debris off of the edges, extra huge debris, edge detail (attaching std shapes to the edges to make them look more complex). All bigger debris are collision objects to FumeFX. sparks and FumeFX drivers are pflow. Just because it is so quick to set up. No brainer. Multiple particle sources for different colors. Lighter smoke, darker smoke, explosions 1&2, velocities constantly pushing through to break up billowing. The FumeFX sim could definitely use more sub steps and grid detail BUT bare in mind this was for tv (tight schedule) and to be seen from a mile away.
COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey – Mini Making Of (Vulcano Edna errution)
COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey – Mini Making Of (Vulcano Edna errution)My vulcano simuation for the very popular TV show COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey with Neil DeGrasse Tyson (nominated for an EMMY). The most challenging part was the fact that the simulation is roughly 1500 frames long (!) and had to move very slowly while maintaining detail. Not the easiest of tasks! The final sims was retimed in FumeFX by 200% which caused a few flicker headaches. It is not really designed to retime that much. The fume grid was pretty massive in size as well and used around 12-16gb of ram.