Noroff fagskole: VFX1 - Particles and Dynamics

This week at Noroff, I am making particles and dynamics to fit a specific scene I want to work with.

Time-budget

Idea Development

This is my mood-board. On the hoverboard, I wanted two different particle systems. A smoke effect under the board, and a red liquid effect in a small container (also, underneath the board. 

For the dynamic mesh, I chose to make a tablecloth, which would act as a "presenter" of the hoverboard. 

(Further description down below on picture.) 

Work

I started off by making the container itself.

Then, by using "Fluids" in Maya, I made the red liquid. 

This red liquid is supposed to be like fuel for the engine that makes the board hover.

Here you can see the different settings I used for it.

Then I proceeded with making the smoke, which I also used Fluids for.

You can see my settings here. (Note, I forgot to take screen-grabs of the attributes from the emitter) 

Then I made the tablecloth.

I made a plane, extruded it, made it an n-cloth object, placed it over the table, hit play. As the tablecloth was in the state I wanted it to be, I set the initial state for that point. Oh yeah, and I made it a bit brown because grey would obviously be boring.

I continued by moving my objects to the correct place.

Then I changed some settings in the nucleus-node for the cloth. 

I made the necessary objects able to collide and started "animating". I simply set key-frames and moved the hoverboard to where I wanted it to go, including tiny rotations as well.

After I was satisfied with the camerawork and the movements, I cached the fluids and the cloth.

I then created a play-blast of the ten second long animation.

Finished Product

This week was interesting. Working with particles and dynamics is a lot of fun, but can be difficult sometimes. I am happy with the result.