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Got the first comic to the point this week where I think I'm finished with it. I'll probably have some friends critique and make a few more adjustments, but its pretty much there. So I went ahead and drew the second comic, which I'll work on painting this week. I'm trying to do a little bit of work on the comics each morning as a kind of warmup. Its easy to want to spend all sorts of extra time on them, but the bulk of my time really should go to the film. On that note, I got cracking on the teaser trailer, which will be up at the end of this month. One of the biggest question marks for me was how to handle the on screen text. I wanted something more than fade in/fade out, white text on a black screen. But I also didn't want canned effects that would look overly gaudy or cliche. So I decided to bulid the effect from scratch in maya using a particle system. I created the text using maya's text tool, and then had the geometry emit particles. I then advanced two frame to get a solid amount of particles, set this as the initial state, and then turned off the emitters. Then with my field of particles all set, I was free to apply all sorts of fields to push them around. The particles blow in from off screen and form into the letters, however this is a little bit of a cheat. Since like I said, I had the particles emitted from from the geometry, its easier to work in the opposite direction. The particles start in the shape of the letters, and then are blown offscreen, and I just reverse the clip afterwards. Here's a quick preview of the first block of text. The rendering is broken up into four sections: 1) the particles flying in, 2) the still text, 3) the particles flying out, 4) the background particles. Overall I'm pretty happy with the effect, my only complaint is that it looks a little more like outer space than I wanted. I was hoping it would look a little more like fireflies or dust particles than a starfield. Oh well. |
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| By fruehdom on December 9, 2007 at 5:00pm EST | Topic(s): trailer particles dynamics maya |
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Well that's pretty freaking cool looking. I can't wait to see the entire trailer.
(Plus I just wanted to post a response in your blog. :) ) |
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