John Bigboote Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 I used A:M these last 2 weeks to procure and animate a semi-technical animation for a sales presentation on a new brand of cat litter. The thing they wanted to see was a granule of litter extremely close-up, and how the pores in the granule absorb, trap and contain the cat urine droplets. Features used in A:M... I used a Simbiont material called 'Chocalate Mine' and baked the results... turned a color map from the 'bake' to a high displacement map to get the 'craggy' finish. MatCaps were used on the droplets and the aqua shield that grows around the granule. A boolean-cutter was used for the reveal of the sphere. To get the small yellow spheres to look like orbulating liquid, I made an animated Fractal-Sum gradient and used it's value as a displacement amount. I went thru about 1 dozen rounds of revision with the agency, and the final product was HD 1280 X720... some frames took about 20 minutes to render with a 25 X 25 multipass to get the displacement to not jitter. I am glad to be done with this, but think it came out nice- for what it is! LITTER_TEST9small.mov Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted June 3, 2011 Hash Fellow Posted June 3, 2011 Urine the money now, Matt! I can't show that to my cats or they will want it too! That looks very good, the style and motion and everything about it looks great! Quote
NancyGormezano Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 Looks great ! Well done! & thanks for the description of how you did everything. I for one though, am looking forward to the next scatalogical episode, in which I assume you demonstrate how this litter deals with..um...kitty poo? Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted June 3, 2011 Hash Fellow Posted June 3, 2011 I like the word "orbulating" too. Quote
John Bigboote Posted June 3, 2011 Author Posted June 3, 2011 Yeah! 'Orbulating'... or to orbulate! Here is a detail render of one of my 'orbulating' droplets of cat-pee. I think this is pretty cool... wish I had tried it when I did the bubbles at the beginning of the 'Pass the Ball 2' title: http://www.youtube.com/user/campydoodles#p/a/u/1/1koP6oTPYZQ This is simply a 8 CP lathed sphere... with no animation to it's geometry. The 'orbulations' coming from the displacement caused by the Fractal-Sum material with it's XYZ values keyframed over time. I think it's pretty danged cool! But, I like bus fumes... orbulator.mov Quote
HomeSlice Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 That looks very good Matt! Did you hand-animate each of the orbulating yellow spheres? Quote
John Bigboote Posted June 3, 2011 Author Posted June 3, 2011 That looks very good Matt! Did you hand-animate each of the orbulating yellow spheres? Good question. They wanted to see multiple blobbies enter each pore before it fills-up... so I made an action where I animated several(7-9) blobbies coming together and then following a path. I then used that action several times and animated IT in the choreography coming forward and then finding a pore... but then I DID do about 1 dozen individual blobbies so it wasn't so uniform. Quote
Bruce Del Porte Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 Great simulation! The physics seems dubious but I'm sure the cats won't care. Quote
John Bigboote Posted June 3, 2011 Author Posted June 3, 2011 Great simulation! The physics seems dubious but I'm sure the cats won't care. Yes. it was meant to be a 'visual representation' and not an actual photographic recreation- so it is quite stylized and not an actualization. Quote
Bruce Del Porte Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 Are you allowed to name the brand so we can watch for the commercial? Quote
Walter Baker Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 Very cool job, and the final frame makes a cool alien face. Quote
largento Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 Most impressive, Matt. That granule would make a great asteroid! Quote
John Bigboote Posted June 4, 2011 Author Posted June 4, 2011 Are you allowed to name the brand so we can watch for the commercial? It was for a promo video... not sure how they are going to use it- but I doubt as a commercial. It's called Cat's Pride. Most impressive, Matt. That granule would make a great asteroid! Yeah, I originally had it over an all black background for readability- but the agency said it looked like an asteroid in space and asked for a litter-box background. Quote
jakerupert Posted June 4, 2011 Posted June 4, 2011 Great work! Love the surfaces you generated within AM. Quote
*A:M User* Roger Posted June 6, 2011 *A:M User* Posted June 6, 2011 Nice animation - like the particles. Quote
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