FX WARS: Invasion: ScottageCheese (Freeform)

#16

The energy ball is coming along, Are you going to add something similar to solar flares orbiting it, that would look cool. The earth shot looks good, I know it’s a WIP but trying more bump or displacement to it. Especially the clouds.

#17

Yeah if there is time, I would like to do the earth shot in a 3d app. Right now it’s all in Nuke. Just using 3d spheres and texturing them. maybe i could fake it in Nuke, but yeah, displacements, or even bumps would help a lot. …time permitting, i’ll totally fix that. Thanks for the feedback

The explosion will be fast, and I imagine it will be pretty close to camera, and then cut to a wide shot of the city, all blown out from exposure. I doubt I’ll get around to ACTUAL DESTRUCTION. Lots of faking

#18

You can displace it in nuke. Just set your sphere to be bicubic, raise the resolution and use your image. The displacement is luminance based so adj the paremeters to your likeing. You will get a render hit though… but i’ll look good!

#19

Yeah Gmora7, that displacement is awesome, however… machine cant take it… my sphere is at like 100 x 100 segments… Trying the shot in maya now, just didnt want to deal with all the render passes.

As RnD continues… been watching a bunch of SWEET ( yet terrifying ) Atomic bomb footage. Thought it might be cool to insert a quick, ground level shot when the alien bomb drops. Its amazing how something made of metal, steel even, turns to playdo when a nuke goes off. The nerd inside me loves that, but the humanitarian in my hates it.

Eventually a street corner, with maybe a building in the background. Mail box, maybe some newpaper thingies, trash can. This will be a heavy scene. Hope i can finish it with the rest.

2.9 megs

http://www.scottagecheese.com/FXwars/movs/Blast_test_001.avi

#20

Started YET another shot… all my work is still in RnD phase… dont have any shots done yet.

But first shot of the UFOs on earth, will be New York. Figured a statue of liberty shot would say “New York” enough. Plus, much easier than making a UFO reflect in thousands of windows.

First and last frame of the shot.

#21

Awesome progress so far! Will you/do you have the ocean reflecting off the bottom of the ship? (and a note on that – I’ve never seen Taken before, so I just associated it with a giant hubcap until I went for a second look at Page 1 :D)

Really looking forward to seeing how yours turns out.

#22

Yeah the ocean is in the reflection already. Gotta love Google Earth, took a nice 2k snap shot of Liberty Island… thats whats reflecting in the ship. First half of the motion, you see lots of grass/brick reflecting, and then passes over water, and reflections go more blue.

#23

Heads up!

Fxwars Invasion: Two Weeks To Go

#24

wow, that’s not a whole lot of time. hahaha.

Either way, I’ll post my WIP edit anyways at the end.

#25

Heads up!

Fxwars Invasion: ONE WEEK To Go (July 3rd!)

#26

There’s no way I’m going to make it… haha

#27

Every time I hear Journey’s “Wheel in the Sky” on the radio I think of this thread :buttrock:A lot can happen in a week, man!

#28

How much time you need?

#29

About 8 more weeks and 3 more people?

Is that doable?.. hahaha… Naw, what I got so far will do, not my best work, but not my worst.

#30

So been kinda busy at work. Only have stills to show at the moment, my machine at work and at home wont render these out of nuke (Bad Allocation error… RAM?), maybe i gotta sneak them on the farm at work late at night.

Shot of Paris lighting up. Tried to frame it so i wouldn’t have to do too much on the shot. Running out of time, using comp tricks, left and right. Might add a flock of birds in the FG. and then a dust/sound wave hits the cam. But the blast is pretty far in the distance.

my second destruction shot… of New York… 2 frames here, sorta first and almost last of the shot. Big flash, and then the city is burried in cloud of dust (Wasnt really going for atomic bomb destruction, maybe it just vaporized organic material like War of the Worlds) But I think it works with the buildings poking out the tops.

And the last shot, a quick pull out from like, high orbit, to almost a full shot of the earth. With pops of light all over the place, showing all the major cities being attacked. And I’m over powering the lights on the surface, so you can see them shut down when the bombs go off.

Most of my shots are at like 75%. May not get to complete any of them.

If I do “Tornado”… for sure it will be one shot… maybe 2.

#31

Crunch Time!!

#32

I most certainly do hope you’ll finish this! From the frames you showed us it is looking very good!

#33

Incredible work on this one. I really hope you get it finished. Even if you don’t manage to get all the shots completed, I would sure love to see what you can get done.

#34

Thanks guys, been throwing another comp togther, of Big Ben in London… all foggy and creepy… I’ll try and post it tonight.

Edit also looking pretty solid thus far, just need to finish about 3 more shots. I’m hoping its a slow work week.

#35

Looking Great. Just out of curiosity what programs do you use?