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CGRoman
03-27-2006, 03:21 AM
hi,

i desperately need basic insight information about a vfx shot in 'matrix reloaded'.

what technique(s) was/were used to create the truck explosion sequence, especially the fire&smoke effect?

http://romanschmidt.com/cgtalk/matrix2_highway_vfxshot01.jpg http://romanschmidt.com/cgtalk/matrix2_highway_vfxshot02.jpg
http://romanschmidt.com/cgtalk/matrix2_highway_vfxshot03.jpg http://romanschmidt.com/cgtalk/matrix2_highway_vfxshot04.jpg
http://romanschmidt.com/cgtalk/matrix2_highway_vfxshot05.jpg http://romanschmidt.com/cgtalk/matrix2_highway_vfxshot06.jpg

i presume they used particles with some sort of volumetric effect, like afterburn, pyrocluster, whatever...

http://romanschmidt.com/cgtalk/matrix2_highway_vfxshot_close.jpg

if anyone has real knowledge about that and could tell me only the basic facts, i'd really appreciate that. this is for my university paper. among other things i wanna compare different techniques and methods to create fire and smoke effects.

thanks in advance!
cheers roman

(all images shown here are copyright to their respective owners and are taken from the dvd.)
Ian Jones
03-27-2006, 08:59 AM
righto, guess I was wrong. I had seen this shot on another companys reel.
CGRoman
03-27-2006, 01:48 PM
hi Ian,

many thanks for ur post! i hope they can help me out with my questions, but thanks for the hint. :)

maybe i'll come back to ur offer. however: THANKS!
cheers roman
beaker
03-27-2006, 06:46 PM
It was done by Sony Imageworks and I believe they told us that the whole shot took 12 months to do. It was the first shot they started on and the last shot they finished. All the explosions and stuff are custom written with some maya and houdini thrown in there. Read the cinefex article on it. It explains some, but you can only go into it so much without lots of math and programming.

http://www.cinefex.com/backissues/issue95.html
CGRoman
03-27-2006, 10:58 PM
hi deke,

thanks for ur post, i really appreciate that! :)
i'll go to the library of my uni tomorrow and have a look at the cinefex issue of that month.

cheers roman
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