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For this 5 second shot in Black Hawk Down, I created dust simulation. The footage was first tracked using Maya tracker. Next, a simple model of the ground and buildings surrounding the landing site was created to bounce the particles representing the dust. Maya volumetric cloud material was used for rendering of the final images. |
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This commercial for Hyundai, the Korean auto maker was inspired by a couple of well known Hollywood disaster blockbusters. Do you know how real an asteroid could look in the close vicinity of our planet? Maybe like the one on this picture. But I certainly would never like to see one so close. |
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The most interesting part of this frame from a Hyundai commercial is how the effect of foam boiling as a result of a traveling air pressure wave from asteroid has been achieved. Apparently at that time even the creators of Maya Paint Effects were not sure if this marvelous software could be really used for something other then making lush alpine meadows. I combined Paint Effects strokes with Maya deformers to simulate water surface reaction to the air pressure wave. |
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The car for this shot in a Hyundai commercial was filmed at Seattle police academy training site. They teach how to drive in heavy rain conditions on water-covered roads. Maya Paint Effects and several layers of painted textures for splashes were used along with the original footage for compositing this shot. |
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The glass mask on woman's head suddenly explodes and bursts with a myriad of pieces. Clients did not like the initial form of glass fragments I created. Fragments were mostly rectangular but they were supposed to be triangular (visually sharp and more glass-like). I did not have time to re-cut the model and setup rigid bodies again. So, I created a MEL script to apply separate animated taper deformation to each one of the fragments at the frame next to the moment of impact. |