FX WARS: Invasion: SSA (Freeform)

[ScottageCheese]

Cool man... digging the turle alien ship... neat concept... very different from the rest!!!

What are the objects dropping in the last shot? bombs? destruction debris? alien babies?

[Gmora7]

Thanks Scottage, our ship modeler is a pretty creative guy.

The objects dropping down in the last shot are going to become a swarm of alien bugs.
A couple of them will come out of those spores on the ship then break into a huge swarm.

[Keithtron]

Hey everyone,

My DP and I shot the plates yesterday, at 4 different locations around NYC. We got some great stuff, and I still need to get them off his P2 card and into a usable format, but they should be posted soon.

:-)

[nikkons]

this looks promising, let us now when you have some update, ill sure be waiting for it : )

[Gmora7]

Matt M. has been working on a rig for the ship when the energy is building up. Here is a quick Playblast:

http://www.gmivfx.com/RibRig_Low.mov
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Mike S. has a complete Apache helicopter ready!

http://www.gmivfx.com/FX_INVASION_models_2.jpg

[ScottageCheese]

Sweet, nice chopper!!! All the way down to the seat strap detail... Bravo!

[RobertoOrtiz]

Heads up!

Fxwars Invasion: Two Weeks To Go (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=139&t=644080)

[RobertoOrtiz]

Heads up!

Fxwars Invasion: ONE WEEK To Go (July 3rd!) (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=139&t=647143)

[Gmora7]

Hey everybody, we have been so busy gathering assets and the deadline is making us work insanley fast. Here is a WIP Composite of a shot. More to come.
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http://gmivfx.com/Shot4.jpg

[ScottageCheese]

Swwweeeeeet dude! Loving the light wrap! Fits in there really well.... Maybe bring the blacks on the ship a little lighter? To match the deep blues of the NY plate?

But dude.... looking sick!

[snicket]

Holy cow, that is amazing! Great, great job!

[RobertoOrtiz]

Heads up

FXWARS INVASION (Post you Final Entry ):July 7th Date (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=139&t=648200)

-R

[HauMingJamieLi]

I hope we win Geronomo.

[Rickmeister]

I hope we win Geronomo.

I hope you guys finish :P

I'm really looking forward to this entry. We've only seen some really early wips and just one frame so I have no clue what to expect.

[snicket]

I don't want to bother you but what do you use for that explosion and what software do you use composting?

[Rickmeister]

I don't want to bother you but what do you use for that explosion and what software do you use composting?

I don't know how they did it, but if you are a 3DsMax user you might want to look into Afterburn, or even better: FumeFX.

Down at the bottom of this blog (http://blog.lekkerleip.nl/?p=102) i've done a simple FumeFX test, and although it needs some more tweaking and all... it works really good. Its more for smoke and flames though. For big explosions you might want to try afterburn.

[snicket]

I don't have 3Ds Max, but thanks anyway.

[Gmora7]

snicket : For this competition we are using Maya and Nuke.
For the explosion i rendered out multiple Fluid effects sims.
Fuel fire and a fuel explosion. Many compositing cheats!

3dMax Fume and afterburn are awesome! Maybe for another project.

[HauMingJamieLi]

I mean Gerry or Geronimo. I hope we win. But it is out of my hands now.

[RobertoOrtiz]

Guys I am looking forward to your entry...

-R

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