Avalanche animation

Started by Hannes, May 27, 2011, 10:20:35 AM

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Hannes

Recently I had the idea of using cloud layers in a different way. Here I animated some localised cloud layers with different densities and differently animated cloud fractals to simulate a mighty avalanche. I used a fill light setup to get rid of the GI flickering. No postwork except the subtle camera shake in the second part. Hope you like it.
http://vimeo.com/24313779

microwar

Holy shit. Glad it's not real. Looks scary realistic.

Henry Blewer

The only thing needed is some displacement of he snow right in front of the slide. It really is quite awesome. Fantastic.
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Seth

very realistic !
the avalanche looks a bit grey sometimes but holy crap, that's a good one !

Tangled-Universe

Mwoah, yeah!
Absolutely loving this!

I agree with Franck, at some points it's a bit grey.

This deserves higher res and quality, very original work. Oshyannnnn...? ;)

Cheers,
Martin

dandelO

Wow, Hannes! Looks extremely good! :)

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Oshyan

Wow, that's very impressive. Surprisingly realistic for not having a particle simulation. Nice work!

- Oshyan

Hannes

Thank you and merci beaucoup! I agree that the snow looks a bit grey, but I decided not to use a completely white colour for the snow, because it looked kind of washed out. Additionally the conversion of a QT with best animation (codec) settings to a H264 to make the file much smaller creates some kind of a low contrast.

I wish I could have rendered this one with higher quality settings, but as you can imagine, renderings with this amount of clouds take veeeery long to render, and since I don't have a killer computer I decided to reduce the quality settings a bit.

AND I'd love to animate the trees, so that they are bent by the snow wall!!!!! But I didn't succeed so far. Maybe next time...


jbest

Wow, that's insane, man!
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freelancah

Holy smokes! Thats a very impressive animation! Good work!!

Zairyn Arsyn

RUN!!! too late. i got clobbered. 
!!!! :o !!!!
that's incredible hannes!
the end of the video was my favorite part, i also think it was the most realistic part too,
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