Super Short Test Animation

[nvseal]

I finally got the animation upgrade. Here is the first test animation. It is way shorter than I would like but it is just a test. 7 hours to render the 50 frames. I hope that I will be able to setup a longer, higher res version over the christmas break.

Sorry for the low resolution. The orginal resolution was only 500 * 250. I did however through in a little music to spice it up a bit  .
http://s242.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid242.photobucket.com/albums/ff302/nvseal/dustStormTest.flv&fs=1&os=1&ap=1

[old_blaggard]

Looking good! I can't wait to see more .

[nvseal]

Thanks. Here is a little longer version.

http://s242.photobucket.com/albums/ff302/nvseal/?action=view&current=dustStormTest_2.flv

[cyphyr]

Great, I love the cloud movement, will it be slower in your final?
richard

[Mohawk20]

Wow, that's great, love the clouds!
The music fits the scene nicely.

[nvseal]

Thanks, the dust storms will most definitely be slower in the final. When I get time, I think I might render the final in HD, probably going to try to make a demo reel.

[Mandrake]

Very nice start nvseal, if you continue this, continue to use the terminator somehow, very kewl!!

[rcallicotte]

Excellent beginning.  It's a little herky-jerky, but the clouds swirling makes this over the top. 

[nvseal]

Yeah, it's jerky because there are only 100 frames and I left the frame rate at 10 frames a second to slow thing down a bit, otherwise things just went by too fast  .

[moodflow]

This looks great!  I larger, smoother anim would be fantastic.  Nice work.   

[Blonderator]

Hey cool animation! I'd love to know how you achieved that cloud movement.

It was my understanding that changing the seed, even incrementally, of the fractals will result in a totally different shape. Like if you started with a seed of '1' for the clouds and changed the seed to '2' the clouds would be totally and completely different in the next one.

So what value did you change?

[PG]

Looks like some work with the distance shader.

[nvseal]

No, not the distance shader. Originally I had the cloud fractal plugged into a warp shader with a power fractal shader as the warper (large feature scale and displacement, thus giving the swirl look of dust storms on the planet). To animate it I added a transform shader in between the powerfractal shader (warper) and the warp shader. I then animated the x and y transformations in the transform shader, thus changing the warp without actually changing the clouds themselves. So instead of moving from different seeds, I am instead moving one seed along the warp curves of a another fractal (not exactly what happens maybe helps to see what it's doing). Simple, but works really good. I also animated the cloud coverage alittle bit for a tiny "building" effect. 

[Mr_Lamppost]

Very nice beginning.

I will have to investigate yore tip about animating the warp.