FXWarsAvatar: Bending Arts!: Hayden Stone

#1

Hey,
Looking forward to doing this challenge, I will hopefully have time to finish it. I’m going to be doing Fire Bending for my effect.

Thanks
Hayden

#2

Ok, this is very much a Work in Progress. Just did some quick tests to try get some control of the fire and get it to do what I want. It’s not quite where I want it but not a bad start. I’ll need to animate my character before I go any further with this though. But first moving on to some fireballs…

https://vimeo.com/78328252

Cheers

#3

very cool, the color is great! I like the rolling effect too, its a great start!

#4

Thanks :slight_smile:

#5

That’s very good start!

#6

Hey,
Sorry for the lack of posts. Rigging, skinning and animating my character took longer than expected.
Firstly, thanks Wirginia for the comments, am really looking forward to seeing your stuff :slight_smile:

So here’s some basic animation for my effect. The camera isn’t final, I just stuck it in there to see the animation close up. I added a preview without the camera aswell. Once I’ve started putting in the effects I’ll be able to adjust the timing correctly.

The animation is based off Azula’s character from the series, I really loved her fight style.

https://vimeo.com/79334397

Thanks
Hayden

#7

Looking good Hayden. I really like the stylized motion of the fire. Maya fluids?

-George

#8

Thanks George :slight_smile: Using 3ds Max and FumeFX, driving them with particles.

#9

Changed this to a shot breakdown

https://vimeo.com/80635343

#10

Heads up:
FXWARS: Bending Arts New Dateline- Mon Jan 6th
-R

#11

Ok, so I emailed Roberto the other day saying I won’t be able to finish this challenge. I had a serious deadline at work over Xmas and New Years so wasn’t going to make the official deadline for this challenge.

However I’m now finished my work and I really want to finish this project as I’ve put so much into it already. So here’s a still render from one of my shots, I’m busy rendering the background environment but thought I’d post it anyway. I Have 1 main shot left and it should be done and will post it anyway even though I missed the deadline.

#12

Post your entry… It is ok.

#13

Ok so here is my final entry for the challenge. Sadly due to work I wasn’t able to finish on time but I really wanted to complete this.
This was a really fun challenge and I learnt quite a lot, I had many many failed attempts and I found out that Firebending was so much harder than I expected. But overall I’m pretty happy with the results.
I decided to render my animation with 2 other camera angles. Unfortunately I didn’t get the time to re-render everything out again to fit in 1 camera motion.

Thanks again for another great challenge…

ANIMATION LINK

Added a quick shotbreakdown , nothing special.

https://vimeo.com/80635343

#14

Hi, looks nice.
Time is always an issue.
I like the jump in your animation.
Good luck.

#15

Thanks Tazio, and the same to you :slight_smile:
Think you may have had the right idea in doing Live action. I created far too much work for myself :slight_smile:

#16

Ok guys,
I need your votes, so we can move to our next challenge…
(And yes the voting page has been fixed)

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=7745369#post7745369

#17

Congratz

This is Why you should always post what you got.

Good Work.

-R

#18

Thanks :slight_smile:

#19

Congratz Hayden! Well done :wink:

#20

Thanks Morhaf :slight_smile: