Pyro beat

[luke046 3]

Hello all,

I've been doing some CHOPs n pyro test lately. Combining audio with animations is quite an interesting field I think. Also been playing with the pyro shader for different looks, appreciate any thoughts for improvements. My machine is a 2010 macbook pro, so a bit limited. Here's a test with pyro and CHOPs:

And a older one with particles:

Cheers!

[Fabiano Berlim 13]

Awesome!!!

[luke046 3]

Awesome!!!

thank you!

[old school 605]

Want it to go longer to see where you take it next...

[luke046 3]

Hi Jeff,

I'm actually rendering a few more seconds but it's the heaviest part(15-25min/frame) so it will take a while.

[Netvudu 112]

great job Lukas. It´s inspiring.

I´m just wondering what you will do for your next demo reel....editing the music as well?

[luke046 3]

Thanks Javier! nice to hear.

Ha yes I haven't thought about that.. But your right maybe I have to start editing the music now too :/

[luke046 3]

update, the pyro beat extended 10 s. Same link just replaced it

[pcbiajante 2]

Awesome work Lukas! Congratulations!

[DanBode 17]

This is totally rad dude!

[luke046 3]

thanks guys! Hm might do a hires version with some shader improvements

[luke046 3]

Hi,

I’ve done some more CHOPs driven pyro, but with RBDs as well. Thought I share it here, and any ideas for improvements is highly appreciated (specially on pyro shading/comp in Nuke). Still rendering this on my laptop so a bit limited but trying to optimize for decent renders/time.

Fireballs

https://vimeo.com/67566626

Some pyro shading and mixing color test.

Painting

https://vimeo.com/67820300

Here I’ve done a similar example to this fumefx test: https://vimeo.com/65370346, but also from geometry. Maybe this could be useful for example to art direct a colourful smoke from a mood board or so.

Stones

https://vimeo.com/68041804

And here I use same technique as Painting but emitting from a cracked object. Also pushes the smoke with the velocity from RBD.

Rumble

With this one I thought would be interesting to use lyrics from a song with the counter and beat from CHOPs.

Heart

This is the latest one. Here I use one geometry to keep it a constant look, but a counter switches between RBD sims to generate different cracks on the beat. I also added debris pieces flying around with the velocity field.

Cheers!

Edited June 25, 2013 by luke046

[zecko 0]

I'm inspired by your work!

[J.Santos 18]

So cool!

Awesome job!

[Mandrake0 57]

haha you made my day.... wonderful work..... :-)

[luke046 3]

Hey thanks guys! Hm here's a similar one but with FLIP instead:

Edited June 28, 2013 by luke046

[acey195 151]

Great work ,

I was wondering, is the animation dependent on just the amplitude/volume of the music, or also on the pitch?

I'm trying to set up some basics for visualizing audio now, but every time I change the pitch range, or change the pitch resolution,

I have to rename all my CHOP channels manually again.

[luke046 3]

Thanks man, glad you like it!

Here the animation are based on the amplitude off the two channels, and a counter with a threshold on the amplitude. Be interesting to take out even more sound attributes like the pitch, but I think in my case it can get a bit unclear if to much going on already.

Not familiar with that issue, but I try to have the final audio ready before I import to CHOPs. Maybe in your case you need to fix that in CHOPs though.

[acey195 151]

Well it was not really an issue, more of a feature I thought was missing, but I solved it using this:

http://vimeo.com/6930470

The problem with the approach I had earlier, is that I found it not "procedural" enough , but that is fixed now

[luke046 3]

Ah, good you sorted it out. Yeah his tutorials are really great, hope you're audio viz turns out cool!