Thought i would just show another test render. Some debri from the tornado will fly towards a house and just clip the chimney. At the moment I’m still tackling camera matching the footage, as its all shaky and blurred I’m almost completely stuck and getting no results from it. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-7y61dgmlA
I haven’t masked the background chimney out because this isn’t the footage I’m using.
congrats!! all your tests are really looking great so far! looking forward to some more of your stuff! : )
Hey Tris3D, you got some seriously good stuff going on! It’s really inspiring to see how much you’ve done yet! I’m curious about your ‘real footage’, as I suppose it has a moving camera in it? Would it be easier to shoot a more steady move, track and use that, and make it look unsteady in post? (Adding rough movements and motionblur in 2D, in the final stage)
As you said you were looking for a nice free tracking application (as Voodoo isn’t that capable, what I agree at), you can use Icarus Tracker. It was developed on university till it was bought by the people that sold it later a “PFTrack” (from the Pixel Farm).
Icarus is not available online anymore on the Icarus website, as the PF would have competition from it, but you can find some download links and information in this thread from some years ago.
Have fun!
Hey there Dutchman! Thanks for your comments and the tips on camera matcher! I haven’t worked on this for a little while but where I left off I did decide to use a still image and add motion later like you suggested. Unfortunately I made the critical error of creating my tornado against a white background and when added to the scene it looked completely different! I need to go back and alter it or possibly change the whole setup, hense the little break! 
I’ll be sure to post progress as soon as possible.
Thanks again!
Hey Tris3d, I do belive you can still find a “Not for Comercial Use” version of Icarus out there if needed.
Another thing you can try since your footage doesn’t look it is too jittery it to try match the motion in your composing software, depending on what you are using you can get some decent results.
Also, if it is allowed, you can send me your footage and I will run it through boujou and send you the results. I believe some team effort in this competion is allowed and I would hate to see you drop out for this.
Hello Tris3D nice work with the tornado debri :applause: I really like the way it looks, the turbulence field is brilliant, I wonder if you could give us a look to see how you did it, Here is my post on this challenge:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=139&t=658152
Video:
http://johnpgiancarlo.cgsociety.org/gallery/661796/
Please let me know what do you think, I would appreciate a lot if you could help me with my tornado debri. 
Thank you
John Paul Giancarlo
Hey there! Sorry for the delay in replying. I’ve just got back from a holiday break. Thanks for the comments, it means a lot.
BusterHymen: Thank you so much for the offer of matching it for me, however where I left off I decided to go with a still image plane that I will animate motion too. Again thanks a lot for the support.
JohnPGiancarlo: Thanks for the comments. I’ve literally just got back from holiday so I’ll try and catch up and take a look at everyone elses work first thing tomorrow. The debri in my tornado took some time fiddling with different elements but basically it is driven by two wind space warps a vortex space warp and gravity. For some of the wood pieces or general junk I added a age test so that when the tornado kicks it up off the ground after a certain amount of time in the air the gravity kicks in. It still needs a lot of work as last time i worked on it a lot of the could particles kept blocking some of the other details and so on so I might start from scratch. I’ll try and post the particle view up for you sometime tomorrow. Just need to get on top of things at home first 
Good luck.
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