Plane render test, this particular shot is a bit less than a second, but plane is used in another 2 shots.
“The background photo used in this image doesn’t belong to us and it is taken from a online source. It’s here just for the purpose of compositing test and will not be a part of the final entry”
Amir
We were initially planning to use live footage for this shot, but it turned out to be impossible with our equipment, so now we are doing a portion of the city (Dubai) in 3D, i wouldn’t worry much about the rendering as it is a stylized shot.
Amir
Software: After Effects,GIMP,Maya
A half a second shot with an exploding house, I still have to work on thecompositing.
Amir
You have a good start there!
It looks more like a volcano erupting than something exploding because you have the fuel ignition (the bright spots) on the outside of the effect. Try making the fuel ignition happen on the inside of the effect. Just make their hotspots at the backs of the trails instead of the front 
Good motion on the shockwave dust.
Can you get any more detail out of the smoke itself? It looks a little soft right now…
But again, good start!
Yes harmless is right… the effect is nice but needs to be tweaked towards the look of fireball and flying debris. your plane and chopper looking good…
Software: After Effects,Maya,mental ray
playblast of Maya scene, now we got to shade it and render it. I’ve added a 2D motion blur in here, for the final work, i am not yet sure how to make the motion blur, i am afriad 3D motion blur will take for ever to render… any suggestions?
hey…
you are certainly right about the volcano effect, it’s just at this point the amount of work ahead of us is really overwhelming, i am gonna try to fix this one sometime between the other shots, one major problem is, i don’t really have that much experience or knowledge with these type of effects, i mean i neither know their behavior properly, nor i have simulated this before, … (sigh)…
still trying…
thanks for the input though…
Well the colors going from the reddish to the grey on the trails must be coming from some kind of ramp. A start would be to simply reverse that color ramp and see how it looks!
Hang in there, you are doing great
nice! i like car design. This shot with bulidings is very fast so its not needed to coment details. overall looks cool . probably you know that but maybe some distance fog effect could make it more real.
Looks good, a little fast though i think, theres so much detail, be a shame not to see any of it by the zooming camera!!
Car design is fantastic., but the city is also perfect, cant wait to see it in animation.
Hi, Your environment and car renders are fantastic. Looking forward to see your finished work.
heya varun,tez,amir, man and rest of the guys… nice to see some interesting work coming out from sae dubai… seems like quite the team you’ve got together… this project looks quite cool and i quite like the last image :)… btw its me azhul…tez was just telling me about how the work was going and things are sounding pretty nice so i thought i’d drop by and give my support aswell:P… looking forward to see how this all turns out and good luck to you guys 
wow, Azhul, it’s inspiring and motivating to hear this from you! how is it going? haven’t heard from you in months!
again thanks for the kind words, i hope all is well with you!
Amir
few days busy with with CG work and shoot so i couldn’t reply any of your kind comments, here it is now…:
thanks perizak, richard3d and dhesing, appreciate the support
well the car design is not exactly ours, its a Maserati concept car that we utilized in here…
we had the same discussion internally, the shot is meant to be a crash zoom, we may end up using this environment for another shot…
certainly, the compositing work still needs to be done, i make sure we add a depth of field in there…thanks for that
amir
