Snowball

[Sollywood]

Hi,

 

I'm needing to make a snowball being thrown at the camera. I'm using the "It's a pitch" tute for the character action (using my own character). When the snowball hits the lens/screen, it needs to splat out (like snowballs do!). Any thoughts on how I can make this happen effectively?

 

Thanks.

 

PAUL

[robcat2075]

How about if some particle "blobbies" hit a transparent plane in front of the camera?

[HomeSlice]

How about if some particle "blobbies" hit a transparent plane in front of the camera?

 

You might also try a fluid emitter and make the particle size fairly large and emission rate really small.

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Whichever way to do it, you will probably have more control over the final look if you set it up in a separate chor and edit the rendered sequence into your movie. (rather than trying to do everything in a single chor)

[Sollywood]

Thanks guys. I'll give both options a try and see what I end up with.

 

PAUL

[johnl3d]

http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=38616&hl=

 

 

my attempt

[Sollywood]

http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=38616&hl=

 

 

my attempt

 

I like the way you made it all flatten against the screen. Would I be right in thinking that this might also be achieved reasonable successfully using a pose?

 

What I'm really after is all the little bits that splatter out and end up a lettle distance away from the main ball.

[TheSpleen]

I would use a pose slider myself and for the little bits I would hide them inside the ball then upon splat they would emerge at point of impact.

[johnl3d]

a pose would do it and another could do the splatter.. I just used cloth and some sprites as a "fast and dirty" way

[Sollywood]

Great. Thanks all.