Fire Flames

Another motion study on fire flames... again maya fluids and mentalray render

Wispy Smoke

I recently spend some time on getting a wispy smoke motion and look have a look @ my video
It was done using maya fluids and rendered using mental ray

Liquid in HOUDINI

I have been doing some test in houdini for some liquid fx so i thought i should upload some of them here
goes a very basic test i did in houdini.

It is basic particles sim just meshed no inter particle collision

This setup was done in 10 mins and took 15 mins to render

Sea Wave Splash

I have been working on a Sea Wave Splash effect and I went through the Sony Imageworks papers @ siggraph and implemented basic or fundamental technique they used..... have a look @ the step by step videos of this effect

I ended up creating a wave animation cycle using a curve as shown in the video below



Then i decided to have multiple curves with an offset in animation so it has some variation and shape for the wave



Then i created a surface out of these waves using a nurbs loft in maya and got the below result




Then i did little bit of particle work by emitting particles from the tip of the wave......basically i generated a curve on the tip of the wave and emitted particles from that...

fx_sparks - system/rig

This is a sparks rig system with lot of controls this simulated in maya and rendered in mentalray and color corrected using Nuke

Features:

• Noise based emission with a frequency and amplitude control
  
• Continuous or random breakup emission
• Generic controls like size, lifespan, speed etc..
• Fully automated script to select the position and run for the rig setup
• configured to be rendered in mentalray with 3D motion blur
  

flame thrower test

These are simulated in Maya 2011 and rendered using mentalray