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impressive !

There's an entagma tutorial about that, I made a brain out of scans following it :

Hey, I made a few Fx on a music video for the band GLU. Had to be done in a rush, so it's far from good : / here are some fx :

hey Caskal, yes, animating is what I meant. And I added that it would be quite a difficult task, specially if you aim for realistic articulation ( not bending what seems to be metal), since the "randomness" of your process isn't placing pivot at the proper places.

many tutorials online about shading with mantra or arnold, octane, renderman ...etc just do a search.

hey, it depends a lot on what kind of geometry you're dealing with, and how it is animated. Is it Xform anim ? Deformed geo ? Particles ? You need to give more info, or better a .hip file in order to get proper help.

eeerrr.... some weeeird things going on in that file, or is it me >? the pointwrangle1 and delete is such a messy way to just delete points with positive red values !!! Am I missing something there ? That for loop to compare a color channel with an integer .. uh??? O_o Guys I'd be interested to know if I'm not getting it, really.

Hey, the deformed hull seems to works better now, I think. It's a little "popping" (1 frame) but with the pyro fx it should work. The rhythm is better too. I feel like a crescendo going on. I'm not sure about the big jump of the ship front half, but it's hard to judge without the water reaction. Wondering if such a vertical jump could happen from what seem to be a core explosion. An explosion under the ship would justify that, but... I like the tower slowly collapsing ! Nice touch *EDIT* An other thing, but it might be something you add on another anim layer, is the lack of rocking/rolling of the boat.

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Oh-en-Fi ! that's scary good ! Thanks for the peak into your setup You even made a nice tool out of it, sweet. That yellow shirt brought a smile on me again makes you wanna break that static constraint and see a couple of moves ! Are you considering it ? Must be quite a challenge, specially if you don't allow cheating with a bendable metal !!!

It's a SABOTAGE !@

Hi, just a few comments, depending on the level you're trying to reach with this "usual" boat boom. Your ocean seems "fluffy" for some reasons. This is a metallic boat. The way you made the sides collapse is totally off, not believable at all imho. Feels like it a cardboard boat, or at least a concrete boat. You lack the plasticity that metal would show in such conditions. Tearing yeah, in some strongly exposed parts, but not without Bending ! I understand it's another (higher) level of destruction sim, but since you're tackling such a classic, overseen exercise ... That's where you should or could improve... maybe ... I dunno Also, animation-wise, it lacks rhythm and growth. That's probably the point of @Librarian 's comment. Your explosions are almost equally spaced apart and of equal strength. It will feel better if you break up that flat rhythm with something like : pop-pop--wait--BOOM! If you see what I mean. About animation too, the camera motion (cam shake) feels very cgi. With just a little more work on it, you could get a better feel to the whole shot. Add a slight translation to the left, a subtle one, and may be break up the smoothness of your shakes. It would be more immersive, as if we were seeing the scene from another boat slowly moving. The mood and rendering is nice tho. J'espere que mes commentaires ne paraissent pas trop "secs" en anglais Bon courage !

a one liner ! well done!

Salut David, it's weird indeed. I bet it's from the random function at ZERO. Here is one way to go around the problem: just replace the multiple by your seed (*) by an addition (+) then it should avoid the zero, and solve your problem i@variant=int(fit01(rand(@ptnum+chf("seed")),0,3)); instead of : i@variant=int(fit01(rand(@ptnum*chf("seed")),0,3));