Dust to dust

04Mar09

Several different ways to make a dust.

quicktime movie

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Loopable flag

23Jan09

flag render

how to make a loopable cloth simulation using 3ds max

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How to make 3d Voronoi cells for a custom points cloud in 3ds max.

These pics (third pic – chupakabrah) and animation were made from a standart max primitives processed by Voronoi algorithm.

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For some reason, there are broken elements in Realflow’s connector for 3dsmax2008, like material for mixing fluids among with some others.

movie

And the challenge was to shake and mix two fluids of different colors.

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lazy flares

21Mar08

I’m totally sick about huge overuse of CG lens flares, especially ae knoll chroma hoop and photoshop’s 35 mm.

So to fight with this i thought out cool method to kill a week – shooting to photo camera real lens flares, then combine them to HDRs and track them with light sources in ae.

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web 2.0

25Sep06

this is the web, made with cloth modifier

large picture

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goal: to repeat macos menu with aftereffects using shoe cream cans

more preciesely: to make growing cans wave, with controllable wave parameters

trouble: cans must be separated by equal distance and should not cross each other when they grow

solution: we’ll create an expression for this movement with help of aftereffects.

sample movie

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