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Liquid metal morphing
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07 Jan 2009Hi gang,
So I'm working on something on the side, and they asked for something a bit like Terminator 2, like a puddle or pool of either molten metal or liquid metal (glowy like lava, or chrome like mercury) that morphs into the shape of a big roller skate. I'm just looking for ideas, to see if anyone has any slick tricks or great ideas for doing this sort of thing fast. It's not for a movie or anything, so it doesn't have to be absolutely photorealistic or anything like that.
I'm already dabbling around with the Melt modifier, PFlow, PWrapper and Glu3d (and I have the roller skate model, but it needs a little cleaning up), but I'm totally open to anything anyone can suggest. I'm just looking for ideas, anything you got!
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07 Jan 2009http://chromosphere.deviantart.com/art/ ... l-31844113
If you're looking for something quick and dirty, I'd try messing around with this idea, snap some splines to the object, and then use this technique in conjunction with some basic animated booleans with an animated noise deformer, you get the idea i'm sure. That's about the quickest way I can think of to do it other than getting into some glu3d or something of that nature... -
09 Jan 2009Cool, zach, thanx! There's definitely some ideas there that could help!
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bzudo 151 posts10 Jan 2009You could try modeling the roller skate and then filling the interior of the roller skate model with a liquid simulation. Once the liquid simulation has settled, place a "floor" below the skate, and remove the roller skate boundary. The liquid simulation would then puddle up on the "floor". Reverse the footage in AE and it looks like it forms into the roller skate. You might have to play with the way the liquid inside the skate flows to the "floor" to get the desired look.
You could also just have a puddle of liquid metal on a floor plane and a fully modeled roller skate underneath the floor. Animate the skate coming through the floor and up through the puddle. As the skate reveals more and more of itself, you could shrink the puddle. You would have to fake it, but it might give you more control than a simulation.
Just my 2 cents. Let me know how it turns out if you can. -
10 Jan 2009You can get good results using a blend of morphs and the melt modifier
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coldside 2 posts13 Feb 2009I posted a tutorial in the maya section on how to do this effect, may be useful for you if you go with the glu 3d route:
Basically, you fill an object with particles, sim it to fall down onto the ground plane, mesh it to look like liquid, and render it out.
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