GT40 vs Ball - Carrara Crash Test

Ford GT40 vs Ball Bearing - What did I do for Christmas? Crashed my new GT40 over and over hehe.

Someone at the Daz forums asked about doing a CGI car crash in Carrara so I tried a few techniques out. This is far from perfect but it sure was fun :)

The animation is mostly physics with a few particles and wave deformers added in for effect.
The GT40 model was made by Donald Sielke ( http://www.daz3d.com/i/shop/artistlist?artist=2648&_m=d )
Music by Kevin MacLeod ( http://incompetech.com )

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Carrara
• CGI
• Animation
• Physics
• Car
• Crash
• GT40
• Ball
• Bearing
• 3d

[animatigital]

I am so impressed by this! Excellent job. Getting the car to break apart in a realistic way is so hard! How did you do it? Making the mesh just explode is easy with the explosion deformer, but you made the car break apart into its logical components.

[AgeOfArmour]

Thanks everyone :)

I will try to put together a tutorial but the basic idea is that I broke the model down into seperate groups like rear driver's side tire, passenger's door etc. Tis made 34 parts in total. Those were then parented to simple proxy shapes which were used for the physics calculations. The quick takes with the checkered shader show the proxies without the high poly parts parented.

[bryceguy72]

9 people had unrealistic expectations.

[sub7th]

Excellent Job!

Impressive work with Carrara physics and as always a nice cinematic flare.

[rafaelcritico]

se vcs qerem ver animações de batida de verdade vejam DB9 e me deem um joinha se gostarem :D... mas mesmo assim esse video ficou bem legal

[FORDboy357]

Why a GT40? A Corvette would have shattered just as well.

[thedesignersl]

Nice compising as well..

[FellianTheDragon]

Brilliant. Next you can attempt folding metal

[Hebert6760]

lol i wanted to see it more realistic not a lego car

[nikedanike]

que programa ez ezte?

[851852093114208513]

Wow. How's that for Ford tough?

[LaughingPsycho]

Excellent.

[SecurityBreach001]

i think it wouldn't blow up that way