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ElecHeadMatt

01-21-2008, 04:51 AM

Hi, you guys.

So I just finished up my Studio 1 project for my senior year at Savannah College of Art and Design a week or so ago, and I've got it ready to show. Some (few) may remember a WIP thread over this a while back that eventually petered out. I don't think its perfect by any stretch but its been a great learning experience and I've definitely come to know a lot about compositing techniques, tracking, and especially fluid and particle dynamics which alone makes it all worth it.

You can check out the YouTube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57WZH1nJurU

Also a higher quality Quicktime here:
http://mattburdette.com/studio1/img/JETSET_final_web.mov

The plane and smoke/fire/explosion effects are done in Maya, the smoke done with particles using a fluid shader attached (made possible in no small part by the Fluids Smoke thread in the Maya subforum) and the explosion done with a fluid simulation I spent quite a bit of time tweaking. All compositing was done in shake, which is not my strongest suit but I think I got by.

I don't have time to work on this anymore, but I'm always interested in hearing feedback, even if to apply it to future projects. Hope you like!

ParamountCell

01-23-2008, 09:39 AM

I like it :)
Perhaps the impact of the crash would be felt more if the camera shook a bit when the plane hit the ground?

ElecHeadMatt

01-24-2008, 07:16 PM

I like it :)
Perhaps the impact of the crash would be felt more if the camera shook a bit when the plane hit the ground?

Agreed. Unfortunately, when I tried to do a bit of camera shake in post, theres not enough in the frame margins to use for a shake powerful enough that it looks right, so it creates these really annoying black edges and borders when it shakes. In retrospect, I should have just shook the camera ;)

torresmedia

01-25-2008, 09:35 AM

I really liked it... Maybe the plane was a bit to bright? To me it seems that the plane is far more away from the camera that it should to crash behind the house? Well, annyway: Nice job! :)

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