A Drill Destroyed My Street! - 3D VFX

http://uni3d.com - This is an animated composite of a small tunneling drill digging up through the street in front of my house. It was animated and tracked in Maya, with the rendering being done through Mental Ray. There are over 25,000 pieces of debris, most controlled by particles, though a few hundred larger bits are calculated rigid body objects. This took about a week, including tests/rendering, the later of which took about 2 and a half days. Full resolution versions at my site above.
-All sounds are from the Free Sound Project-
http://freesound.org/

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• animation
• 3d
• vfx
• visual
• effects
• fx
• composite
• motion
• tracking
• Maya
• drill
• explosion
• street
• fluid
• smoke
• particle
• dynamic
• simulation
• breakdown

[XF3DeX]

it looks like it needs a bit of color correction

[ICPJuggalo1988]

Nice eye! Since it was one of my first comps I put this together in After Effects, and had yet to be taught anything about how digital assets tend to be vivid, and matching RGB white/grey/black levels, etc. I'll keep future work from that pitfall!

[suckingducking]

wow :0 wish i could do stuff like that in my maya 2008.

[ICPJuggalo1988]

That's exactly what I made this in! (either that or the older 8.5) Overall the hardest part from my background of work was accurately tracking and aligning the whole scene, given the shaking and all. It did take most of a week of tests to get the fluid dirt sim right, but the debris is just a simple shower of particles with maybe 20 chunks instanced, overall things can get way more complicated. Then render everything in layers and tweak them about in a comp package. (After effects in this case)

[valiance86]

really need to get into motion tracking do you know of any good tutorials. Do u have any preference on tracking programs boujou, pftrack?

[ICPJuggalo1988]

Only tutorial I've read on the subject was the Maya help file to get used to Maya Live. I've since been using Boujou at school, which is so easy it's practically a joke, the layout is very clear and obvious, or just use the wizard and you'll get going right away. I've heard great things about PFTrack, especially being able to use geometry you've built to align the track to your 3d scene, but I've never tried it hands on.

[stephenharperbest2]

lol a old man would go like "GETA OFF MY DRIVE WAY"

[ASTYNOMIA1000]

What software have you used for the 3d modeling ??

[laughing31]

china drilled through the middle of the earth?

[horneyharney]

shredder and the boys 

[masterod1]

Nice work... 10

[SuperTarheels2009]

SWEET VIDEO

[Ronnie51026]

try using rebel cc its a free afx plugin that color corrects almost automaticly

[tomma0264]

nice video

[rawrEvan]

In general, the darks are darker and highlights are brighter because most cameras don't have a very wide value range.