FXWars Flame Thrower: WINNER!

[TheGrak]

Here's my final entry! :)




NAME:Garrick Campsey




STILL: http://www.garrickcampsey.com/media/flame/flameBotTitle1.jpg




WIP THREAD: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=139&t=898264&page=1




DESCRIPTION: "One day, I decided to build a robot. A kind robot, who shoots fire. Once he was set free, he had to be stopped."
ANIMATION LINK: Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/13985742
MIRROR: youTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dBoPOR-i0I
And here is the making of:
Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/13985812
youTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju9ivy5LhuM

[ComputedEmotion]

Here's my entry!

NAME: Marijn Raeven

STILL:http://www.computed-emotion.be/dump/wabbit3.jpg

WIP THREAD (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=139&t=900262)

DESCRIPTION: A short animation of an encounter between a flame thrower and a very unfortunate stuffed animal. Total amount of work (without rendering) was about 25 hours, which was mainly spent on the flame thrower animation.

ANIMATION LINK: 720p version on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/13983949)

MIRROR (http://www.computed-emotion.be/hunting-wabbits.html)

[toufik]

hello this is the final comp i hope you like it ....good luck for all artists

NAME: TOUFIK MEKBEL

STILL:http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/1258/flamethrowertoufikmekbe.jpg (http://img821.imageshack.us/i/flamethrowertoufikmekbe.jpg/)

WIP THREAD (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=139&t=900262) : http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=139&t=899867&page=1&pp=15


DESCRIPTION: the military group's weapons harness the power . of a fire that burns everything that it comes in contact with.





ANIMATION LINK: http://www.vimeo.com/13975077 (http://www.vimeo.com/13975077) - FLAMES ANIMATION (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDESf8QvunA)

MIRROR (http://www.computed-emotion.be/hunting-wabbits.html): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPrY...feature=channel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPrYfVC2vx4&feature=channel)





http://toufx.fr.gd/ (http://toufx.fr.gd/)

[NahuelL]

NAME: Nahuel Letizia

STILL:http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/9961/nahuelletiziafxwarsflam.jpg

WIP THREAD: Here (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=139&t=900240)

DESCRIPTION: The flamethrower and the ignition flame were done in 3ds Max with FumeFX. Flamethrower simulation time was ~34 hours and render time was ~30 hours (on a core 2 duo). All was composited in Fusion.

ANIMATION LINK: Footage (Vimeo) (http://vimeo.com/13968063) - Plain Animation (Vimeo) (http://vimeo.com/13976531)

MIRROR: Footage (Youtube) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLOzVNEmcrg) - Plain Animation (Youtube) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOnbZrl1zbg)

[alx]

NAME: Alex Duque
STILL:
http://www.alxstudios.com/3d/flamethrower/StillFrame.jpg
WIP THREAD: wip thread (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=139&t=908786)
DESCRIPTION: Well, i decided to enter the competition really really really late.... 3 days before the due date :eek: , i thought it would be a cool exercise to do, besides.. i wanted to play with Maya 2011 new fluid options.
I used Maya fluids with n-particles for the simulation.
the n-particles create the fuel motion the nparticles become an emitter for the fluid container.
TIME-FRAME: i started to work on this project on Friday Aug 6 2010, at like 2 pm.
by 11 pm i had tried different approaches for the simulation.
so the first part "Research"took 9 hours.

got back to working on the project on Saturday at 8 pm and was up until 8:30 am on Sunday, i stopped only because i sent the render that i am submitting now.
so the second part "look development" took 12 hours.

the render was not meant to be a final, it was just a test. and the render crashed on me this morning. at 10 am.
i did not have time to work on the project today (Monday), so.... i just made a quick comp in after effects and am submitting this file.
so the final part "rendering" took 22 hours.

the total man hours for this project were 21 and 22 rendering hours.
first frames took 10 mins a frame, by frame 100 it was taking 20 mins a frame. at low resolution with low quality setting with Maya software.

HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE
machine : laptop vaio
processor: intel i7 1.6gz
ram : 6g
os : windows 764bits
Starbucks coffee :argh:
Maya 2011 - fluid simulation and nparticles.
Aftereffects cs4 - quick comp "no post"



ANIMATION LINK: Animation Link (http://www.alxstudios.com/3d/flamethrower/AlexDuque_FXWARS(432x210).mov)

MIRROR:
14019256

VIMEO LINK : http://vimeo.com/14019256
All the best
Alx

[Myzlo]

NAME: Jarrod Nichols

STILL:
http://i35.tinypic.com/w21zr.jpg

WIP THREAD: Jarrod Nichol's Wip Thread (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=139&t=899416)

DESCRIPTION: This is a breakdown of how a flamethrower functions. First FX Wars challenge I've participated in, been fun! Overall wish I could have devoted more time to this and not rushed the end result, but live and learn.

ANIMATION LINK: Jarrod Nichols_FXWARS(640*480).mov (http://vimeo.com/14020503)

MIRROR: Jarrod Nichols_FXWARS(640*480).mov (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtbsMEWgr2g)

[ivanisavich]

NAME: Tyson Ibele

STILL:

http://www.tysonibele.com/Main/Animations/Flamethrower/flamethrower_sm_2.jpg
http://www.tysonibele.com/Main/Animations/Flamethrower/

WIP THREAD: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=139&t=904508

DESCRIPTION: Two soldiers fight a giant beast within the ruins of a city. Inspired by Sergey Kolesov's painting entitled "Old Terence's War" (http://www.peleng.byethost12.com/Finished_Old_Terence%27s_War.html) (creature design used with permission).


Primary modeling, rigging, texturing, animation, lighting, rendering, comping by me.

The following additional models were downloaded from Turbosquid:

-Gas mask (ditodito designs)
-Army clothing (Sirda)
-M1 Garand (Jonfletc)
-Tank (ES3DStudios)

Smoke/Dust plates from Action Essentials 2 (http://www.videocopilot.net/products/action2/).

Flamethrower sim created with FumeFX.

Rendered with a mix of Scanline/MR/Vray.

The project was completed over a period of 3 intense weekends. My work schedule was very busy over the past month so I was not able to work on the project during the week.

Originally I wanted to do some kind of battle between humans and monsters, and when I saw Sergey's painting I was immediately inspired to pursue a similar monster design.

After creating the monster, I designed the characters and the main environment. Once those elements were completed, I rigged the characters and monster, and began planning the shot layouts. I didn't storyboard or anything ahead of time, I just planned out the shots in my head. Once I had a rough idea for how I wanted the scenes staged, I brought the rigs into the environment file and started animating.

Several progress videos were posted in my WIP thread showing my animation progression. One thing I wanted to achieve in the animation was giving the monster a real sense of size and weight...but I didn't want it to be totally immobile so I ended up with a mix of slow, heavy motions combined with faster movements once it is attacked.

After all 7 shots were animated, I then proceeded to the rendering stage. I used LPM (http://lukashi.com/LPM.php) to manage all the render passes. Also, up until this point, I hadn't tested any flamethrower simulations. Due to the short amount of time I had to render and comp all the shots (basically, this weekend is when I started rendering), I did flamethrower tests while I was waiting for my renders to finish. Once I achieved the look I wanted, I used pflow to spray particles out of the flamethrower and onto the monster. The pflow events were designed so that some of the fire particles that collided with the monster would stick to it for a short period of time, giving the effect of the creature slightly catching on fire. The fumefx fire sims for each shot ended up taking about 1 hour each.

All the shots were comped in After Effects.

Sound Effects were mixed in Sony Vegas.



Good luck to everyone else who participated in the challenge....it was fun seeing what other people came up with!

ANIMATION LINK: Flamethrower (http://www.tysonibele.com/Main/Animations/Flamethrower/tyson_fxwars_%281280x720%29_mixed.mov) (1280x720 33mb) (http://www.tysonibele.com/Main/Animations/Flamethrower/tyson_fxwars_%281280x720%29_mixed.mov)

MIRROR: Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRuJOoEKALw) Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/14077207)

[joshfilms]

NAME: Josh Johnson, Camera operator: Eric Mousel

STILL:
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc286/triplej96/still_0160.jpg


WIP THREAD:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=139&t=898360

DESCRIPTION: Well this isn't the final piece I had in mind but I didn't have a lot of time to work on it. Main things I wanted to try was make a semi-realistic flamethrower and have it interact with an object on a live action plate.

ANIMATION LINK: http://www.vimeo.com/14038111

Sim ANIMATION LINK: http://vimeo.com/14058177

MIRROR: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4059083/fxwarscomp_Josh.mov

-Josh

[Katachi]

Name: Samir Kharchi
Still:

http://www.dpit2.de/temp/fxwars/thrower_test06.jpg

WIP Thread: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=139&t=898411

Description: Simulation and rendering took 20 hours. It is a combination of liquid (fuel) and gaseous (smoke, fire) fluid simulation. Compositing (MB, color correction, layering) in AE.

ANIMATION LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXFsjqmQ9uk
Mirror: http://www.dpit2.de/temp/fxwars/thrower_final.mov (1080x607)

[ivanisavich]

Great entries guys :) It was a fun challenge!

My favorites were:

BEST SHORT: Garrick Campsey

BEST SIMULATION: Nahuel Letizia

BEST WIP THREAD: Josh Johnson

[MSun]

my votes:

BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele

BEST SIMULATION: Alex Duque

BEST WIP: TOUFIK MEKBEL

[czaps]

Great challenge and very nice work pieces Guyz! Congratulations for all of You.

My winners are:

BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele

BEST SIMULATION: Nahuel Letizia
BEST WIP THREAD: Josh Johnson

[TheGrak]

This challenge was a blast to enter into (:)). I loved seeing everybody's work and progress!
Here's my picks:

BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele

BEST SIMULATION: Nahuel Letizia

BEST WIP THREAD: Josh Johnson

[Katachi]

Yep, it was! Great entries we have this time again. :)

BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele

BEST SIMULATION: Nahuel Letizia
BEST WIP THREAD: Josh Johnson

[toufik]

hello my freinds that was a great chalange i learned alot of things

my vote

BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele

BEST SIMULATION: Nahuel Letizia
BEST WIP THREAD: Garrick Campsey


thanks

[ComputedEmotion]

This certainly was a cool challenge with lots of great entries. Congrats to all! My votes:

BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele

BEST SIMULATION: Alex Duque

BEST WIP THREAD: Samir Kharchir

[tool2heal]

BEST SHORT : Tyson Ibele
BEST SIMULATION : Nahuel Letizia
BEST WIP THREAD : Josh Johnson

[TD0615VFX]

Great work to all of you!

My vote is

BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele

BEST SIMULATION: Nahuel Letizia

BEST WIP THREAD: Samir Kharchi

[joshfilms]

Really fun FXWars and great work everyone. It's great to see the diversity in the entries.

BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele

BEST SIMULATION: Nahuel Letizia

BEST WIP THREAD: Nahuel Letizia

[alx]

this was a fun challenge, and the entries..... :buttrock:

here are my votes:

BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele :drool:

BEST SIMULATION: Nahuel Letizia :applause:

BEST WIP THREAD: Garrick Campsey :D

:beer:

[ShamesArt]

BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele

BEST SIMULATION: TOUFIK MEKBEL

BEST WIP: Alex Duque

[Myzlo]

Cool challenge, hope everyone had fun!

BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele

BEST SIMULATION: Nahuel Letizia

BEST WIP THREAD:Garrick Campsey

[NahuelL]

This was a fun challenge! Great entries from everyone! :)

BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele

BEST SIMULATION: Samir Kharchir

BEST WIP THREAD: Garrick Campsey

[jimmy4d]

BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele

BEST SIMULATION: Nahuel Letizia

BEST WIP THREAD:Garrick Campsey


Great work mates........:beer:

[SofianeAV]

BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele

BEST SIMULATION: TOUFIK MEKBEL

BEST WIP: TOUFIK MEKBEL

Good luck.

[AhmadAbdulhamid]

BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele
BEST SIMULATION: Tyson Ibele
BEST WIP THREAD:Garrick Campsey

[ParamountCell]

BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele

BEST WIP THREAD: Toufik

[feldy]

Best short. Tyson Ibele

[kameldesign]

hi congratulation for all artist my vote
BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele

BEST SIMULATION: toufik mekbel
BEST WIP THREAD: Garrick Campsey

[RobertoOrtiz]

Ok guys,
You got 24 hours from the time of this post to vote.

Thanks,
-R

[Lesia]

Great entries. Here's my votes...

BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele
BEST SIMULATION: Nahuel Letizia
BEST WIP THREAD: Josh Johnson

[Horganovski]

Great work from everyone, very well done.

My votes :

BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele
BEST SIMULATION: Nahuel Letizia
BEST WIP THREAD: Josh Johnson

[PexElroy]

Excellent work everyone - awesome war! :scream:

My votes :

BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele
BEST SIMULATION: Nahuel Letizia
BEST WIP THREAD: Josh Johnson

[RobertoOrtiz]

Ok guys I will tally up the results tonight.
(I will allow voting until then)

[jispro]

Hi guys, alot of good works here.

my votes goes for:

BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele

BEST SIMULATION: Nahuel Letizia

BEST WIP THREAD: Nahuel Letizia

[RobertoOrtiz]

And that is it.
I will add the results tonight.
-R

[ChrisCorr]

BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele

BEST SIMULATION: Nahuel Letizia

BEST WIP THREAD: -

Oops, guess I was a few minutes late. Sorry about that.

[RobertoOrtiz]

Guys sorry for the delay in the vote count, but I had a last minute emergency at work to take care of.

I should be able to count the votes tomorrow afternoon.

Later,
-R

[RobertoOrtiz]

Ok we have a winner for the FXwars challenge:


I am very impressed with the GREAT of entries we got.
and I hope you all will join us for our next mini challenge
Dambusters! (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=139&t=902588)

Here are the winners:

BEST WIP THREAD:
Josh Johnson
NAME: Josh Johnson, Camera operator: Eric Mousel

STILL:
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc286/triplej96/still_0160.jpg


WIP THREAD:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthr...?f=139&t=898360 (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=139&t=898360)

DESCRIPTION: Well this isn't the final piece I had in mind but I didn't have a lot of time to work on it. Main things I wanted to try was make a semi-realistic flamethrower and have it interact with an object on a live action plate.

ANIMATION LINK: http://www.vimeo.com/14038111 (http://www.vimeo.com/14038111)

Sim ANIMATION LINK: http://vimeo.com/14058177 (http://vimeo.com/14058177)

MIRROR: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4059083/fxwarscomp_Josh.mov (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4059083/fxwarscomp_Josh.mov)

-Josh

BEST SHORT:
Tyson Ibele

STILL:

http://www.tysonibele.com/Main/Animations/Flamethrower/flamethrower_sm_2.jpg
http://www.tysonibele.com/Main/Animations/Flamethrower/

WIP THREAD: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthr...?f=139&t=904508 (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=139&t=904508)

DESCRIPTION: Two soldiers fight a giant beast within the ruins of a city. Inspired by Sergey Kolesov's painting entitled "Old Terence's War" (http://www.peleng.byethost12.com/Finished_Old_Terence%27s_War.html) (creature design used with permission).



and the BIG ONE
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b216/robertoortiz1/FXWARS/cupfx.gif



BEST SIMULATION:
Nahuel Letizia

STILL:http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/9961/nahuelletiziafxwarsflam.jpg

WIP THREAD: Here (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=139&t=900240)

DESCRIPTION: The flamethrower and the ignition flame were done in 3ds Max with FumeFX. Flamethrower simulation time was ~34 hours and render time was ~30 hours (on a core 2 duo). All was composited in Fusion.

ANIMATION LINK: Footage (Vimeo) (http://vimeo.com/13968063) - Plain Animation (Vimeo) (http://vimeo.com/13976531)

MIRROR: Footage (Youtube) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLOzVNEmcrg) - Plain Animation (Youtube) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOnbZrl1zbg)



Ok guys here is the Vote Count:

BEST SHORT: Tyson Ibele (24 Votes!)
Garrick Campsey

BEST SIMULATION: Nahuel Letizia (16 Votes)
TOUFIK MEKBEL (3 Votes)
Alex Duque (2 Votes)
Tyson Ibele
Samir Kharchir

BEST WIP THREAD: Josh Johnson (8 Votes)

Garrick Campsey (7 Votes)
TOUFIK MEKBEL (3 Votes)
Nahuel Letizia (2 Votes)
Samir Kharchir (2 Votes)
Alex Duque

[Katachi]

Nice list though it looks kind of biased :D

[RobertoOrtiz]

Still counting...
:)

But a pattern is quite clear.
-R

[NahuelL]

Awesome! Thank you everybody for your comments and help! Congrats to Tyson and Josh! This was a fun challenge with very good entries! :)

[ivanisavich]

Great job Nahuel and Josh :D

See you next time!

[joshfilms]

Great job everyone especially Tyson and NahuelL :)!

You will definitely be seeing me next time!

-Josh

[RobertoOrtiz]

I do hope you guys will join us on our next challenge:

CgTalk:FXWars! Dambusters! - Challenge:31 (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=139&t=917887)

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