Day 22 & 23

Day 22 & 23 Impact wave


For yesterday and today I returned to impact wave. Previously my RND and testing was in non-commercial and wasn't to scale. So I reference back from the old files and redid them in the commercialized version and also added the reference scale in to have the proportions right.

Firstly I plan on how to improvise my effect. Previously I thought of having my impact wave to be just a pressurised air, meaning to have it low in opacity but thicker in density. But since I have 2 more months of working period I thought why not render hard. I began referencing more on impact wave and saw "The Hurt Locker" explosion scene where pebbles float not because of the blast but instead the impact wave.

EPIC EXPLOSION SCENE

So time to walk the walk!

Impact wave body.

Impact wave network

So this is where I last tested the effect.

Debris Network

And by using the wave I am able to emit particles from the points of the wave. Making as if the wave pushed the particle up.

Derbis

 I replaced the particles with platonic solid to represent it as rocks.

rock network

I also used platonic solid as a substitute for the high resolution rock to save tremendous working time. And created a switch to have an option. May taught me how to make the rock by using mountain node, so many thanks to her! Mr. Ron taught me how to use the copy node. With that I checked on tutorials to have a randomise scale for each rock. Using the same expression I used it for the offset of the rocks so that every rock will have a different shape.

Rocks

I tried rigid body to have it more realistic but it does not work. So I continued with the external force.

with sprites.

I used the particles and rendered them as sprites and have them to change in scale over time, where I learnt from the Tornado tutorial. I will upload the video tomorrow as it is still rendering and as for now I will have my dinner with May!