gradient controlled shell

[johnl3d]

I had an idea on the way home tonight so I tried it out and except for a few light spots is seems to work as per plan

 

 

appear.mov

 

 

The other option was to have the shell appear then the material change to something similar to what I used

 

This is the first render

[Dhar]

That's cool. Reminds me of some creature you'd see on the original Star Trek Series

[johnl3d]

appear1.mov

 

 

Sped this up to test next step..dynamic exploding element

 

 

the idea is a character forms the shell be casting a spell and raising his arms then when it explodes he has morphed into a different creature

 

Will have to fix the exploding model to look more shell like and probably more pieces and fix the gravity so it doesn't sweep up

 

 

welcome any suggestions

[cfree68f]

Very Cool John,

 

I can actually use that technique on the project I'm working on right now. How did you do the noise in the sphere?

[johnl3d]

abirth.zip

 

Here's the project it uses a darktree that I included

 

remember the project is just in idea stage no tweaking

[johnl3d]

appear2.mov

 

I trimmed the exploding model to make it more shell like and tried a different darktree

[case]

very cool john it looks very neat wow amazing for a guy that could pass out at any second lol!

[johnl3d]

appear3.mov

 

A little tweaking and another model plus a few more materials and a flare getting close

[Zaryin]

I don't know what you are trying to go for here John, but it looks awesome!

[mark]

I think the appearing shell looks great! I do find that shell fragments flying up and away a little disconcerting though. If they followed a trajectory I think the effect might look better - or perhaps if they started to follow a trajectory and then vanished! Only my opinion.

[johnl3d]

Mark I agree have to work on that