Wax 2.0 Cinelerra Tornado

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Uploaded by on May 7, 2011

Tornado animation created from a Wax 2.0 particle system and composited in Cinelerra

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  • I really don't have time to do tutorials... but I use the same system in two other tornado videos that I have on my channel. I use Linux and have run wax in a virtual windows envrio... and that is really just no good way to work. That is why I use a different compositor. Now I just use Blender 2.5x... no more wax.

  • A short description of what the particle system is as follows. I used two shades of brown (dark and light) particles in the birth and death transformation. The particles are emitted and travel in a vertical path. The camera then rotates around the particles to make them appear as though they are cyclonic... when in fact they are not. The video that I have in the "white room" has 5 different particle system layers (some aren't spinning).

  • The "desert heat" cyclone video is the same particle system as a .png image sequence on a plane in blender. This was the most effective use, I think... because blender has better 3d environment controls, by far. I only work with particle in blender now. But these tests in wax taught me a great deal about how systems can be created and physics can be 'cheated' with the camera.

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  • @FreeWareFrolics um, freeware? im sorry, but this was not just wax, and cinelerra is for linux only, i tried to get it :(

  • You should do a tutorial, since that is probably the best and most realistic use of the wax 2.0 particle system that I've seen, well done!

    A quick sidebar; was there any particular reason you didn't use the wax program for compositing?

  • Nice effect. I love the realistic effect of debris appearing to be hitting the camera lens. Nice added touch.

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