FXWARS Tornado VOTE!

#1

Ok we have a winner for the FXwars challenge:
WE HAVE A TIE!

Here are the winners!

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS[color=darkorange][color=white][color=darkorange][color=white][color=darkorange]
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[li][color=white]Jonathan Freisler[/li][/ul]

STILL:


WIP THREAD:here…

DESCRIPTION:
My main intention was to do something fairly different and to stand out. My initial feel for the challenge was to make the shot really cinematic and have an almost film quality to the final piece, again going against the dark and stormy atmosphere normally associated with tornados. I chose to do a waterspout with the hope not many other people would consider going down that avenue. I built all the assets for this challenge using 3D studio max, with pflow for particle effects and some simulations. The spires, cranes, ropes, barrels, boats, secondary buildings and most of the debris on the rig was hand animated to complete the final effect. Volumetrics were done with After burn, FumeFx and all rendered in Vray.

ANIMATION LINK:

here… (save as)
(currently a .wmv, ill upload a .mov when i get a chance)

MIRROR:

Vimeo link here…
youTube link here…[/color]

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[li][/color][/color][/color]John Paul Giancarlo[/li][/ul]

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WIP THREAD:Tornado_JohnPaulGiancarlo_FujitaScale-F5_Tribute[color=#ff8c00]STILL:
here

DESCRIPTION:
This time I just wanted to create a Tornado FX and participate, in the next challenge I´ll take more time to develop a better and more original idea.
ANIMATION LINK:
Video in Gallery here

MIRROR:

Video in youtube here
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[/color][/color][color=white]Great Work guys!

…And lets talk about the next challenge:
[color=darkorange]Coming soon to FX Wars…
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Jonathan Freisler -14 Votes
John Paul Giancarlo -14 Votes
Dan Chamberlin -12 Votes
Chris Waner-10 Votes
Luke Pammant -2 Votes

Jeremy Raven
[color=gray]Songrit Ankurarat[/color]
THE CHALLENGE:[/color]
Click for Rules
[font=Verdana]Render a realistic, forensic or fantasy type animation of Tornado doing what it does best.
Think the good parts of the film TWISTER…and you get the idea.

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[i][u]Voting:[/i][/u]
[i][b][/i]For this challenge we will experiment with only ONE category:[/b]

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[li]BEST VISUAL EFFECTS[/li][/ul]Here are the entries for the challenge:

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[li]Chris Waner[/li][li]Jonathan Freisler[/li][li]Andreas Scholz[/li][li]John Paul Giancarlo [/li][li]Dan Chamberlin[/li][li]Jeremy Raven[/li][/ul]Entries Delivered after the dateline (but still elegible for voting)
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[li]Luke Pammant[/li][li]Songrit Ankurarat[/li][li]Young Lee[/li]
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#2

[color=darkorange]NAME:
[color=white]Jonathan Freisler
STILL:

WIP THREAD:[/color]
here…

DESCRIPTION:
My main intention was to do something fairly different and to stand out. My initial feel for the challenge was to make the shot really cinematic and have an almost film quality to the final piece, again going against the dark and stormy atmosphere normally associated with tornados. I chose to do a waterspout with the hope not many other people would consider going down that avenue. I built all the assets for this challenge using 3D studio max, with pflow for particle effects and some simulations. The spires, cranes, ropes, barrels, boats, secondary buildings and most of the debris on the rig was hand animated to complete the final effect. Volumetrics were done with After burn, FumeFx and all rendered in Vray.

ANIMATION LINK:

here… (save as)
(currently a .wmv, ill upload a .mov when i get a chance)

MIRROR:

Vimeo link here…
youTube link here…
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#3

NAME:
Chris Waner

STILL:
<LI>WIP THREAD:
here…[b]

DESCRIPTION:[/b]
My primary focus was simply to make a dramatic and believable shot of a tornado. The background was a still image taken by Marie Smith. She graciously allowed me to use it for this project. Everything seen here was done in Maya using primarily maya fluids and particle sprites with custom expressions to get the appropriate motion. Compositing was done in After Effects. The LSD Group (www.lsdgroup.com) generously provided me with machine time for the project. Everything except the sprites were rendered in mental ray.

I highly recommend viewing the HD version over the youtube mirror.

ANIMATION LINK:
Animation Link HD in-browser here…
Animation Link HD download here…[b] (save as)

[/b]MIRROR:
youTube link here…

#4

NAME:
Andreas Scholz
STILL:

THREAD:

DESCRIPTION: |
The life footage was made with a Sony F828 camera on a rainy day.
The 3D was made in Maya 6.5 unlimited.
For compositing I used combustion 3.
The resolution is 640 x 400.
Time for creation is almost impossible to say as I did so many stuff side by side over the last weeks.

Self criticism: Tracing the awful quality footage was a horror. Next time, I use better q. with higher res. I traced with Maya Life, btw. First time I used this and not to bad.
I also don’t like the fluids. They have some nice results in between but break out to often into awful shapes. Next time I will use them only for subtle areal ground-dust. Time-management lol - nothing more to say but from 1500 frames (including the main area without trees to get a good view on the approaching tornado) only the first 550 rendered in time. So it was a little bit of a hack to get the already prepared sequences (like the car) into the time frame to get a useful final at the deadline.
I’m still happy so far. Beside learning to use maya life, the completly expression controlled tornado reminded me of some long forgotten behavors.
ANIMATION LINK:
Three different codecs, so nobody can complain :wink:
Tornado MOV H264(4 MB)
Tornado MOV SOR (25 MB)
Tornado WMV WM9 (7 MB)


MIRROR:

#5

NAME:
John Paul Giancarlo
STILL:
here

WIP THREAD:

DESCRIPTION:
This time I just wanted to create a Tornado FX and participate, in the next challenge I´ll take more time to develop a better and more original idea.
ANIMATION LINK:
Video in Gallery here

MIRROR:

Video in youtube here

#6

NAME:
Dan Chamberlin

STILL:

WIP THREAD:
Here

DESCRIPTION:
Being my first FXWars challenge, I was really just looking to complete it on time, and get some feed back. This project, like most, was a huge learning expierence for me, and I throughly enjoyed every minute of creating it (well, except for the 80 hour render time on the tornado). I hope you guys enjoy it, and I can’t wait for the next challenge.

ANIMATION LINK:
Here is the video on my website: (higher quality)


MIRROR:

Here is the mirror on Youtube: (low quality)

#7

NAME:
[color=white]Jeremy Raven

STILL:

WIP THREAD:[/color]

DESCRIPTION:
320x240px 9.45MB takes a wee while to download, please be patient

ANIMATION LINK:
http://www.jeremyraven.co.nz/tornado.html

MIRROR:

#8

NAME:
Luke Pammant


[b]STILL:

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WIP THREAD:
WIP Thread

DESCRIPTION:
Discription:
As stated in my WIP thread, my laptop with all my work on it was stolen and this is all that i have left of this project unfortunatly. This was a test render I did at low resolution. Its all I have to show for so I figured I’d submit it.
The idea for this was to go with something unique. Everyone else was doing life sized real tornados so I figured I’d try to make a smaller tornado devistating a small toy farm set. My intentio was to get it in some live footage in a living room but my plans when down hill with that theft. Anyway here it is!

ANIMATION LINK:
Direct Link

MIRROR:

YouTube

#9

NAME:
Songrit Ankurarat
NonameVFX

STILL:

WIP THREAD:
Here…

DESCRIPTION:
my process, Background i use still image in bangkok, i use 3ds max for all process, especially my tornado use particle Super Spray and Pyrocluster 3.5 and destruction building use reactor dyn ,model helicoptor i build in 3ds max too!!! and in the end composite in after effect

ANIMATION LINK:
Here… (rapidshare)


MIRROR:

Here…

#10

NAME:
thefluidrobot

STILL:

WIP THREAD:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthr…?f=139&t=661269

DESCRIPTION:
Description: I wanted mine to be an integration of live action and cg. I used Maya fluid fx for the cloud base, the funnel and the foreground debris. the ground cloud was used as a force to drive the dust particles. Had to rerender three times. First time was a really bad composition, so picked a new background plate. Second time, I messed something up, third time, it finally came out decent. If I had more time, would animate destruction of the buildings and lots of debris stuff, but alas…

ANIMATION LINK:
Quicktime:
http://younghlee.com/reel/tornado_movie1.mov

MIRROR:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sr-zLtKCNY&fmt=18

#11

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[li]BEST VISUAL EFFECTS - [color=white]Jeremy Raven[/color][/li][/ul]
All were excelent entries very tough to choose just one.

#12

Please host your videos on something better then youtube.
Try Vimeo it looks a ton better and has a higher resolution and free also.

best over all
John Paul Giancarlo

#13

To me its Dan Chamberlin. Well executed overall.
Others are nice though, as already said above :slight_smile:

Great work.

#14

Was fun to watch them all. Great work!

My vote goes to Jonathan Freisler. I like how it affected the surrounding water and rig. It really sucked.:wink: (in a good way) Cool!

#15

My vote - Dan Chamberlin

#16

very fantasy:)

#17

I vote for Chris Warner

#18

my vote: John Paul Giancarlo

#19

My vote: Jonathan Freisler

Some great work by everyone

#20

[b]+1 for John Paul Giancarlo

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