FXWars! DISINTEGRATION!: Jozvex, 'Dusted' (Buffy/Blade)

#2

LOL <-- that’s all i’m saying

#3

Haha I know, he’s spontaneously burning to a crisp due to invisible fire from a… Snargleflondus demon?

:scream: :scream: :scream:

#4

LOL!, Good work, keep going, you have a nice start.

–<Daniel>–

#5

HAHAHAHA… greatest super-power I’ve EVER seen. :smiley:
“Dont mess with me! I’ll burn myself and collapse!”

Looks like a good start… glad to finally see someone enter!

#6

Well this test footage proves that this concept can work with the footage provided.

So this gives me an idea now for team entries.

Anyway, looking forward to more updates.
-R

#7

Ok, so I’m going to try for the full Blade disintegration effect. I need to hire Blade Trinity for clearer reference (I assume it would have the best effects of the three?) but it seems like the basic ingredients are:

The person
A skeleton
Fire
Embers
Ash
and maybe smoke

Here’s another little test I made today:

http://www.jozvex.com/CGTalk/FXWars/FXWars07_DisintegrationTest2_Jozvex.mov

Still dodgy and the scale of the fire is way off . Oh, my tools will be Maya Unlimited 8, Fusion 5, Photoshop and if I get really confident Syntheyes (for tracking a camera move).

:thumbsup:

#8

Not bad at all! It also answered the question I had about how to use that stock footage… you just paint in/make up the background you don’t have in cases like that, I guess? It looked like in some of the Mars Attacks type footage that the scene practically froze as the guy disintegrated… perhaps that’s the best they could do at that point.

I might give the whole thing a try… I guess it couldn’t hurt… hmmm…

#9

Yeah, I just quickly cloned myself a clean plate Photoshop, though having an actual clean plate would be nicer which is why I’ll still film my own footage if I can.

You should give the challenge a go! The worst that’ll happen is you’ll become the laughing stock of CGTalk and never work in this field again… and that never stopped me before!

:thumbsup:

#10

What he said!

:slight_smile:
Seriously, I look forward to seeing your entry.

-R

#11

Oh, okay – sweet! I thought someone would come burn my house down or something. :wink:

Eh, I guess I’ll give it a shot. :slight_smile:

#12

no no… we’ll dress up funny and burn teapots on the front lawn…not too close to the house, so there’s no worries! :slight_smile:

#13

Well I got myself Blade Trinity and even though the movie is… quite… sub-fantastic, the vampire deaths and other effects are so very good!! I’m a bit scared though now. I’ll have to try really hard if I want to come close, which I do. As much as I love my dearest Buffy, the effects in Blade Trinity are way cooler (well, it is a feature I suppose). And an Aussie plays Dracula which is quite hilarious on some levels.

Are we allowed to post any kind of DVD still captures? Like a collage of disintegrating death (…undeath)?

#14

Yes this is a great start. I usually don’t follow FXWARS but I would love to see this one where it’s leading.
Keep it up.

#15

Thanks for the support everyone!!

Ok the reference footage is clearly a huge help. My particles were too small, my fire was way too big, and it just needs to be more fast and furious and KAPOW!

I’m rendering out a completely different test now. Using a CG character rather than the footage. I’ll post the results later.

:scream:

#16

A slight improvement, no?

http://www.jozvex.com/CGTalk/FXWars/Jozvex_FXWars_BladeEffect.mov
(7mb eep)

I can’t believe I did all that today! Maybe I’m undead… :scream:

Maya/Motionbuilder/Fusion

EDIT: But in all seriousness, it has some issues. The fire appears in chunks rather than spreading and it vanishes too fast. There’s no ash and my embers are a bit huge and overpowering.

#17

I especially like the embers that fly towards the camera. Did you use Maya fluids to do the fire and ember effects?

#18

Very nice start you have there. Makes me want to join the challenge myself.

Would be a killer to have some real life photage like the one in you clip. Anyone living in Norway and own a camera feel like filming me ? :stuck_out_tongue:

#19

Thanks! Yes I here’s what I did:

  1. Used Motionbuilder to put some mocap together and stick it on that character.

  2. Imported the guy into Maya where I improved the mesh a bit and added some animated shaders. I used the Geometry Cache feature which really helped playback and later calculations.

  3. Created the fire with Fluid Effects and cached it

  4. Created the embers using Blobby particles. I use blobby so that I can use standard shaders and render them in MR.

  5. Animated the camera and rendered 4 passes with Mental Ray. Character pass, fire, embers and a depth pass that I didn’t end up using :rolleyes:

  6. Tweaked and composited in Fusion!

:thumbsup:

#20


Skeleton Disintegration

just did some tests on disintegration for the current project i work on so that´s out of competition :wink:

#21

Well maybe you should try that for a entry in this mini challenge.

You just have to accommodate the live action plate.

-R