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Dynamic Effects Maya Techniques with Alex_Alvarez | 4.65GB
Bullets Dust Hits and Debris | Duration: 179 min
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When objects impact the ground such as bullets footsteps one often expects to see an effect such as a puff of dust (dust hit) a burst of debris. This four part tutial demonstrates how to create dust hits and debris from bullets hitting the ground fired by an animated jet fighter composited into a live action background.
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Pixie Dust Using Sprites
Duration: 94 min
Pixie dust… magical powder that emanates from the land of faery and those that inhabit it. Associated with Disney films Pixie Dust also manages to find itself in movie theatre promos bumpers commercials and many video games. This tutial demonstrates how to create a dynamic Pixie Dust effect using sprites.
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Creating and Rendering Sparks
Duration: 60 min
Sparks are a fairly common yet simple effect that can be effectively created using Maya dynamics. This tutial demonstrates sparks from a collision as well as from a pulsing (expression driven) emitter. Starting from scratch we generate the required elements to produce the effect: volume emitter particles fields animation expressions Collision Events particle shader and utility nodes. F rendering we utlize the Tube software render type as the final output yet we also discuss how sparks can be rendered using the MultiStreak hardware render type.
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Sprite Rendering Fundamentals
Duration: 26 min
Sprite rendering of particles is an incredibly efficient and powerful method f designing an almost unlimited variety of effects. When particles are set to Sprites an image sequence (with transparency) can be mapped onto the individual particles. As any image can be used the possibilities are endless: Snowflakes optiFX smoke fog dust fire splashes flying birds dust hits etc. This tutial demostrates the fundamental knowledge necessary to utilize sprite rendering in Maya. Shader set-up and managing PP attributes (spriteNum spriteScale spriteTwist lighting) are discussed.
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Ground Explosion
Duration: 180 min
This tutial demonstrates how to generate a volumetric ground explosion that is software rendered with cloud particles. Through the use of emitters particles fields collisions instancing expressions cloud shading lighting rendering and compositing the effect is generated from scratch.
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