Cellular drift technique?

[heathivan]

Id try mograph and perhaps animate the parameters of the Random effector. You can adjust its strength or falloff if the cells are already moving in a certain direction.

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[Joseppi]

VP,

How about putting the cells coming from particle emetters (slow speed), then using wind or gravity effectors with randomness settings...

Joe

[JamesMK]

And, in case you don't have MoGraph, try the Noise node in Xpresso applied to the position vector of your cells. Using an Iterator you could easily make it step through all the cell objects and displace their positions. The Noise node has a Brownian motion mode that should be able to produce the right look of the movement patterns.

[NWoolridge]

Here's an approach using the older particle system:

Just seed a space with some non-moving particles, and use a big turbulence field to make them drift around. Turn on the wind object for some directional drift...

Nick

[JoelOtron]

I put my vote in for mograph (random effector set to noise)--makes this sort of thing effortless.

You might also want to try using Chris Smith's CS tools. You can drop the vibrate node (included in the set) into each object and set it for a different parameter---and wont need to keep coordinates at 000.

Heres a shot from something I worked on last year--its just ONE grid cloner with a random effector---done.

http://www.betatronstudios.com/joel/float%20hpv.mov

[VestanPance]

Thanks for the tips. I am going to avoid Mograph for now due to the fast approaching deadline. The turbulence method looks promising for now although we are probably going to get MoGraph after this one.

Thanks again. SP/VP

[soccerrprp]

Joel,

Like the lighting in that video. What lighting did you use?

Richard

[JoelOtron]

Joel,

Like the lighting in that video. What lighting did you use?

Richard

Thanks Richard

Its just an area key light and one or 2 fill lights and environment fog.

The look you are probably responding to however was mostly achieved in post in after effects (lenscare dof, starglow, photo filter, and grain). I think its a bit too monochrome and blown out--but illustrates the drift technique well I think.

Good luck VP

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