mdme_sadie Yours looked the most convincing and real to life. The simulation and animation was great. I would’ve liked to have seen more of it: When the snow starts becoming a little more definite in shape. But overall fantastic
ACantarel
Watching yours really made me feel on edge. I got a feel for the intensity from it. Using sound was a really smart idea and made the piece. The rendering and atmosphere could’ve used a little more to make it seem more real. Also, maybe using more big globbs of snow together would’ve made it seem more real, as avalanches are usually monsterous waves of snow, with smaller particles of snow shooting out of it. I felt with yours that it looked to much like giant snowballs rolling down a mountain. Also, the snow seems to grow out of the mountain instead of falling off.
Triple G
The cracks on top of the mountain rock. It looks really convincing. However, after the snow falls it looks for like a waterfall of cotton. It starts really cool, but the actual avalanche could use some more work on it and some more experimentation. I see with the camera work you were going for a handheld-home-movie effect. What would’ve made it more convincing is more quick and shaky movements. Especially zoomed into something that far away (the mountain), one mm of movement might move the subject halfway off the frame. So the whole ‘slowly moving down the mountain while the snow falls’ could be reworked.
Yan
As with Acantarel, your snow seems to just grow or appear at the top of the mountain. I don’t get a sense that the snow was to heavy to remain in it’s current position so it had to fall until something stopped it’s motion, the ground (the whole newton’s law deal) I would’ve also liked to have seen the snow accumulate more. It seems like one river of snow falling. In reality, it might have conjurred tons more snow on the edges of the avalanche to create an even more powerful fall. And why did you stop at the end? It would’ve given such a sense of power if you let the avalanche run into the camera with sever camera shakes! You get scared looking at it come your way, then it stops:-/ But good effect overall
Awesome job everyone, there are so many things that, if you worked together, would’ve had an AMAZING effect. So much to learn from each other I’m sure. Sound always adds an effect to it, and seeing that this is an FX challenge, why not use all the tools in the box?!
Future FX challenge: Popping a pimple and seeing the distance you get with it!? Could be interesting without keyframing?
BEST SIMULATION - mdme_sadie (camera work totally looked convincing as did the animation)
BEST ANIMATION - mdme_sadie (breathtakingly real)
BEST OVERALL ENTRY - [font=Arial Black][size=2]ACantarel ([/size]The sound really helped)[/font]
