CgTalk:FXWars! Snow Avalanche Challenge VOTE!:2

[Wolf_S]

BEST SIMULATION ACantarel
BEST ANIMATION ACantarel
BEST OVERALL ENTRY ACantarel

[system]

thx for the link to the mirror roberto
and thx thomas for the host

[Zgame]

BEST SIMULATION ACantarel
BEST ANIMATION: mdme_sadie
BEST OVERALL ENTRY: [size=2]mdme_sadie[/size]

Im kinda annoyed with all of these to be honest. Everyone had GIANT clouds of snow floating away, especially when it started, this is not very accurate. It only starts kicking clouds up when the terrain had a rapidly changing fall line, for instance when it gets going fast enough to fly off rolling hills, or drop down a large rock line. Even in very large scale avalances the fine particles arent that big. Its more like a mud slide most of the time. (I was Alpine Meadows ski patrol in 92/93)

here is stock footage from Teton Gravity Research, great team. http://www.tetongravity.com/stock/avifast.htm

[ACantarel]

@Zgame: Look at the time we used for that and the hardware. I did it in the free time at work. Nothing at home.
It was just a funny project. That´s all.

andré

[k4k]

BEST SIMULATION:
1.mdme
2.yan
3.ACantarel

BEST ANIMATION:
1.Yan
2.ACantarel
3.mdme

BEST OVERALL ENTRY:
1.ACantarel
2.Yan
3.mdme

[hobo]

BEST SIMULATION:
1.mdme_sadie
BEST ANIMATION:
3.mdme_sadie
BEST OVERALL ENTRY:
3.mdme_sadie

For me all had plus points, after watching all over and over mdme_sadie had more in every category.

[Evenflow]

Best Simulation: mdme_sadie
Best Animation: mdme_sadie
Best Overall Entry: mdme_sadie

[azozel]

I had an idea for the next Fx wars simulation. A motor cycle accident compleet with rider. And after the first colision point no manual keyframes are allowed.
Congrats to all who entered. Nice work!

I cant spiell wurth crep! that’s why I’m an arteist.

[DjinnShadows]

Best Simulation : Yan
Best Animation : Yan
Best Overall Entry : ACantarel

Great job for all entry. But Yan’s simulation are really the best imho :applause:

[csven]

BEST SIMULATION ACantarel
BEST ANIMATION ACantarel
BEST OVERALL ENTRY ACantarel

had to watch them all a few times. nice work everyone.

[Anubis]

Best Simulation: mdme_sadie
Best Animation: mdme_sadie
Best Overall Entry: mdme_sadie

You know I voted based on what looked the best in the three categories -from the view I was given. I think that the views should almost be arbitrary, as we are looking for the best procedurally simulated scene… Not the best person to try to hide his popping hypervoxels by cropping and blurring the ‘virtual camera’. Everyone did this to some extent: ‘oh, the camera is out of focus’, or ‘lets zoom into right here’.

As for others, some people spent all this time adding props, atmosphere, tons of things, when their particle simulations weren’t even fixed, someone had popping and serious lifespan issues on their particles, yet spent hours adding tons of fluff to their scene…

[system]

hmm… i made a simple “slide” motion for the camera, just to see all the avalanche, without blur…just little motion blur
no more noize or shake motion, just to show all as is it…
no zoom envelop too…
so, no “special” effects…
i personaly dont “try to hide…”, and spend way more time to set up dynamics than choose the “good hiden angle” for cam as you said…and think its the same for the others…
but, if its your opinion…

[Kvaalen]

Great job for all entry. But Yan’s simulation are really the best imho
I agree! Great job everyone! I had my choice made and then I downloaded Yans at the end and changed my decision. I like the way everything is clear and understandable. It would have been nice at the end if the camera stopped a bit closer and the snow went underneath, but still… it’s the best IMHO. The house destruction was also the most realistic. So if I give the first two votes for yan, I guess that obliges me to give the third one too?

Best Simulation : Yann
Best Animation : Yann
Best Overall Entery: Yann

But ofcourse everyone did a great job!

[Xorlium]

Woa, all four were amazing. I really had a hard time deciding.

Best simulation: Yann
Best animation: mdme
Best overall entry: Yann

mdme: Yours is very good, but the simulation at the end I find it somehow weird… Probably yours is the best textures too…
Acantarel: Your simulation doesn’t start very well, it looks like the snow is “appearing” instead of falling. Near the end that gets fixed, but…
TripleG: How did you do those cracks?!?!? They look amazing. I think yours had the potential to be the best one, but we don’t get to see what happens. It’s too short, and too far away
Yann: If it weren’t for the trees, it would look real!!

[Triple_G]

You know I voted based on what looked the best in the three categories -from the view I was given. I think that the views should almost be arbitrary, as we are looking for the best procedurally simulated scene… Not the best person to try to hide his popping hypervoxels by cropping and blurring the ‘virtual camera’. Everyone did this to some extent: ‘oh, the camera is out of focus’, or ‘lets zoom into right here’.

As for others, some people spent all this time adding props, atmosphere, tons of things, when their particle simulations weren’t even fixed, someone had popping and serious lifespan issues on their particles, yet spent hours adding tons of fluff to their scene…

Well, all this begs the question…where’s [i]your[/i] entry then? Come on, man…we’re doing this for fun…lighten up. :rolleyes:

[Anubis]

Yan, I wanted to apologize, when I posted my reply your link was down and there wasn’t yet a mirror (not that I saw). Yours was what I think they all should have been like as far as views and presentation.

[RobertoOrtiz]

Hi guys, Roberto here.
I just wanted to say thanks to all that made the second FXWARS a success.

I All the entries were great but it is obvious that 3 entries went ahead of the pack.

So lets show the winners!

BEST SIMULATION

[color=red]FXWars! Avalanche!: YAN[font=Verdana]
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[/font]BEST ANIMATION

[font=Arial Black][color=red]FXWars Avalanche : mdme_sadie[/color][/font]

And now for the big one…

Drum roll please

BEST OVERALL ENTRY
The winner will have the honor of gettting this nifty graphic…

FXWars! Avalanche!: ACantarel

And of course you can post your ideas for future contests here:

CgTalk:FXWars!Topics
-R

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[system]

hehe, finish!that s a good things!
thx guys, very good contest, fun to do.

and congrats to mdme_sadie, very cool animation, the best one for me

and for sure congrat to you André, you did excellent works on this avalanche. for sure your animation is the best overall entries! good render, good simulation, good cam action. keep up the good works!

cya maybe for the next FXWar…

[ACantarel]

Oha!

Thanks to all who voted for me!
I hope the next time I avoid the mistakes i did.

Also congrats to Yan and mdme_sadie
I hope we´ll meet at one of the future challenges again!

André

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