Hello everyone,
Right now I’m swimming in a sea of cloth shots and rig fixes, so I thought I would take the time to make a post about a music video RFX finished awhile back.
Here’s the full video:
The project was a passion piece spearheaded by Nader Husseini. I found the project a lot of fun and some interesting problems came up. One of which was the dynamic tentacles. The animators needed to start kicking out shots quickly so they needed the tentacles to feel like they were swimming in water without having to keyframe each tentacle. The problem for me was that this project was all done in Maya 2008 so I didn’t have access to Maya Dynamic Hair. I had not explored the older ways of doing dynamics prior to cloth/hair. I was able to get some good results with softBodies and felt pretty good about it for not having touched softBodies prior.
But that’s what everything comes down to. It doesn’t matter how simple or complicated your solution is, all that matters is the final look.
