CgTalk:FXWars! TESLA - Challenge:24 - WE ARE LIVE

#21

If you want to do it in max natively you can try modifying the AEC Extended trees. Hide the leaves AND/OR branches and modify the mesh with noise/push/taper modifiers till you get the look you’re after.
I think you’d need a minimum of 3 trees to make it look realistic(one or two for the bolts and one for the large beam).
I am not sure how to rig it. You can still animate the height of the trees and the noise values since you’re using modifiers. But be warned, it will be very hard to position the rays if you have many of them.

I’ve used it a long time ago to recreate the electric ray on the tesla tank.
http://www.ayanik.net/work/3d/tesla_tank.jpg

#22

hey thanks. it is very useful tip. I shall try it out when i get home.

#23

“within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the principal news, to hear a speech, a lecture, a song, or play of a musical instrument conveyed from any other region of the globe.” 1905
Though much admired today I don’t feel Nikola Tesla received his due while he was alive. I’d never heard of Tesla until well into my 30’s. Unlike the great writer and visionary Jules Verne, who put forth many fantastic ideas in his novel ruminations, that have since come to pass, with absolutely no idea how; I believe Nikola Tesla, had he the time would have made all his ideas reality. Such as the “inexpensive device” he spoke of one hundred and four years ago.
This is an excellent challenge and tribute.

#24

Excellent challenge. I’m very glad to see someone from my old country honored. I wish I could do him justice, but my skills are nowhere near at that level!

#25

Edit: Doh, wrong place for the entry listing!

#26

So here’s our final entry. Got it done today and exported with some audio even! Anyway, Adam did all the FX, the lighting, particles, teleportation, animation, dust, etc. I’ll let him go into his workflow and all that stuff.

I did all the modeling, set design, rendering, texturing and lighting. I used Max 2009 and Vray, as well as Photoshop. All in all it was a fun challenge, lots to do and I wish I could have gone at it a bit longer. Just glad to enter the challenge and get it done though. Again, I want to thank my boss and friend Kerry Harwood for helping me to composite the final scene today, add music, do some C&C and all that fun stuff.

So, hope you enjoy it, good luck to everyone who entered. And a big thank you to everyone for leaving comments and critiques along the way! 

~Neight

  [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MrTlJED5hc](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MrTlJED5hc)
#27

Tesla was hugely under appreciated genius of his time and after reading through some of his quotes the story basically unfolded itself. Two weeks start to finish (part time) using Maya, After Effects and Photoshop.

YouTube

Quicktime

#28

Hey guys,
here is the thread to post your final entries:

FXWARS TESLA! Post you Final Entry

Great work guys…

-R

#29

150th Tesla Anniversary - The Serbian Tesla Society, BELGRADE JULY 2006 - KALEMEGDAN FORTRESS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voWOLTGH92g&feature=channel_page

#30

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w33q7G7pOqA

GRAAL

“On the path to planetary ascension”
Boris Petrovic,

“Graal” reflects a journey through culture, religion and science interacting as materializing symbols. It stands as a decryption of the horizon between physical and spritual existence towards final unity of physics and metaphysics. the seed of cosmic voyage and consciousness expansion of mankind. Depicted with inventions of NIKOLA TESLA, revealing the deepest secrets of the legacy of this extra-terrestrial spirit. It’s essence is in physical evidence of the harmony of existence, creation of the almighty.

Holy Grail as a placenta of all-expanding time-spiral and the birth in spirit of new mankind on planet Earth, an event written about in all world religions and scriptures from the beginning of words, as blood of the collective being, as the food of human spirit. It is a road, beginning with initiation of consciousness through travelling to a Black Hole, the neverending road to pre-beginning, the end of past and present. It’s task is collapse of 3-dimensional existence, opening the door to Heavenly Jerusalem, through the knowledge and use of blood-flow of the Solar system, magnetic fields of planets and the solar wind.
Phenomenon of Ascension, explained as contraction of space and time of microcosmos, made by the human hand with the guidance of higher agents, made through will of mankind towards opening the holographic memory of creation, using gravitational disturbances in Earth’s orbit, and for the glory of the timeless kingdom.

http://www.n01a.org
Institute for new cosmology and the science of time
Category: Science & Technology

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#31

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#32

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