Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Visual Effects 2 Presentation

We had to do a presentation in class for visual effects and I partnered up with my friend Alex. We ended up doing a galaxy or milky way out of particles in Maya. It was fairly easy and I added some animation to it to make it seem more 3D. I had a lot of fun with this project and I really loved how the galaxy came out.


Visual Effects 2 Class

For our first project we had to create a fluid fire in Maya. I decided to do a simple campfire fire, that looked something like the image below. I broke down the color of the fire, the shape and where the heat seem to be the hottest. I had some trouble when I messed with the opacity in Maya to get it just right. I had the most fun messing with the colors, at first I made blue fire then green. In the end, I went with the reference colors from the image.
My final version of the fire: