Pop It - Visual Effects

How we created the VFX for this Invisible Engine short!
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Tags:

• Pop
• It
• Invisible
• Engine
• Ghostlight
• funny
• comedy
• fire
• explosion
• nuclear
• nuke
• LA
• 3D
• animation
• FX
• mushroom
• visual
• effects

[jericsynergy]

I'm familiar w/Lightwave, but when you say "animation controls to make it roll", what specifically are you referring to??

Thanks, it looked like fun!

[ghostlightdigital]

We used bones that had linked rotations. Spin one, the others spin, that spins the geometry, which spins the attached Hypervoxels. Cheers!

[ProvidenceFX]

That´s a nice nuke composite there. . What camera are you guys using?

[ghostlightdigital]

This video was shot on the Canon XL-2. Canon makes beautiful picture, but they need to jump on the tapeless media bandwagon. Right now we use the RED.

[plokoon12]

Very Cool! But wouldn't the nuke destroy LA? and leave some damage? 5*

[ghostlightdigital]

Yeah but damage is hard and I'm tired.

[SOEdigital]

That's a really simple way of get a nice looking mushroom cloud. Congrats!!!

[krispykreme82603]

wow, thats pretty neat

[Ghostlight]

@orlanduce The mushroom is a donut shape, with bones placed around it, each pointing outward. When the bone rotates, it rotates that part of the donut. All the bones' rotations are linked to a master bone, so you only animate one, and the others rotate along. The mesh is distorted using displacement, and Hypervoxels (Lightwave's volumetric solution) are attached to the mesh and given random sizing. When the mesh rotates, the clouds do too.

[orlanduce]

how did you use animation controls to the mushroom clouds? i'm looking for that right now.

[Ghostlight]

@FireForHighr Lightwave

[FireForHighr]

was that blender?

[FinalCutKing]

noticed you liked visual effects videos and i thought you would also like mine.

zach

[Ghostlight]

@LuckyGameing We currently use Lightwave 3D, which is pretty easy to learn as far as 3D animation software goes. Compositing was done with Shake, though we've switched to using Nuke.

[LuckyGameing]

@ghostlightdigital what programs did you use to make that nuke i mean in the future i want to make something like this with paintball but i have no clue were to start when it comes to programs

[DaveCodeglia]

@TheMyTrance Good thing it's a comedy.

[TheMyTrance]

So much work for something that still doesnt look real .. could see its fake instantly

[OMGGP]

can you give us the mushroom cloud / nuke explosion

so we can use it in after effects?