Particles being grinded off teeth

[flashawd]

Hi - I have a dentist client that wants an animation of the process of Veneers being put on. I need to illustrate a dental drill shaving down the tooth a bit. I am guessing a "blobbies" particle material or something? I would love any suggestions or samples of something someone might have done similiar to the effect I am trying to achieve. I have delt w/ smoke and fire before, but not w/ blobbies.

 

Thanks for any help,

Eric

[strohbehn]

Hi Eric,

Did the dentist specifically ask to see the shavings flying off the tooth and the tooth preparation process? I wonder if it might be less intimidating/frightening for the patient if you showed a model of the tooth before preparation, then just fade the picture into the finally prepared tooth. The patient shouldn't have to see the drill to know how the reduction gets done. This would make your job easier and might be more effective at selling the procedure anyway. You could then just animate the veneer being fit to place and end on a perfectly modelled tooth/arch.

 

Mark

[MasterFunk]

If the dentist is supposed to shave off part of a tooth would it be more dust like? You could try volumetrics... I did a test with blobbies and here is what I got.

teeth2.mov

[flashawd]

Hi - good point about the shavings flying off the tooth, but he did mention he wanted the animation to show that. Sean - thanks for the .mov - I think your idea w/ the dust would work better, unless the blobbies could be made very small and fall straight down? I'll have to play around w/ both.

 

Thanks again,

Eric

[strohbehn]

There would also be a suction tube right next to the tooth to evacuate the water spray/tooth shavings. How about sucking the spray into an opaque white tube? That would look cleaner to the patient, also.

[flashawd]

Good suggestion - Thanks for the idea, I'll have to see what the client wants.

[flashawd]

Masterfunk - I have never played around w/ blobbies - I think what you made up will work if I play around w/ size etc. Do you know of a link you could post for blobbies? Thanks - Eric

[MasterFunk]

No, that was one of my first experiments with blobbies as well. However it is pretty straight forward. You can change the size, density, gravitational force, and many other things.

[MasterFunk]

I just did a quick search through the forums and found this: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showt...amp;hl=blobbies

 

Holmes' tutorials are usually really good.

[flashawd]

Thanks Masterfunk. I wish I would have started when I was 15... although, the internet didn't even exist back then.