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3D Still + Animation
Sea and Sky - Animation(3dsmax)
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09 Aug 2005My first version of my sea and sky animation. took my computer 4 hours to render 20 seconds! heh. Anyway, I want to know what you people think and how I can improve it, etc, etc. So don't be afraid to smash my self esteem to pieces
you can get it by going here:
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09 Aug 2005Hi there,
Ok....Your sky looks good. The little red-clouds sunrise effect you've got going on at the beginning looks very nice...I'm not sure if you've gone and added the sun in yourself, or if that's part of the sky matte video...but either way that looks good.
As for the water...well:
a) It doesn't cusp and there's no surface foam.
b) It's generally too dark
c) It moves too slowly
Hope that helps!
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09 Aug 2005The link seems to be broken
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09 Aug 2005same here global
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09 Aug 2005http://digimediaworks.net/source/mov/DS ... owband.mov
Ohk link is back up- sorry guys I was doing a mass update on my site. Things were very disorganized behind the scenes
T, thanks so much for the crits. will begin to make the changes. What do you mean by "cusp" tho?
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09 Aug 2005What did you do for your sea surface it's pretty nice but it needs a bit of bump to get the jello look to disapear otherwise it's very nice, your clouds are a bit low.
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09 Aug 2005A cusp occurs when a wave peaks, and gets a "sharp" edge.
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10 Aug 2005yes I agree 100% with the comments.
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10 Aug 2005ws this made with dreamscape? if not than WOW, the colors really blend magnificantly, if so......work on the water
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11 Aug 2005http://digimediaworks.net/source/mov/DS_SE_v2.mov
thats the update with the fixed wave size, speed, and better antialiasing. The color of the sea is relative to the sky, therefore i left it and i thought the color was fine IMO. I'm having trouble adding foam though(I didnt want to add cusping if there wasn't any foam to cusp for ). anyone have any techniques for foam on sea or what plugin can do it well?
Thanks for the crits so far guys, i really appreciate it
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11 Aug 2005Darkremixx, what did you use for your ocean surface, it's really nice.
for foam hmm that's the million dollar question
Well if you could find a way to do what one of the finalShaders of finalRender do you could try this.
First the shader is able to have different level of mapping depending on the height of the object, and you can even blur between the two or more.
What I would do is use it to tell a Pflow to emmit from the mapping that is the highest and then use Pwrapper of GLU3D to give it a liquid feel and with your map give it a foam look, I suggest glu cause I have no idea how to use Blob object with Pflow. You can always have a bit of foam in your water with mapping but wouldn't be as nice. In my experience with GLU you have nothing to fear from the Pwrapper
But I haven't tried it yet so this might not all work.
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12 Aug 2005
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12 Aug 2005Advice with GLU, when you first try it go with simple things or you'll run into lots of crash
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15 Aug 2005T I'll have to disagree with you on the generaly to dark, especially that his sun is very low, ocean is dark and very scary at large.
And for the cusp i'd love to try the plane with noise Dark did before, i might be able to try my technic, cause i don't have dreamscape. -
15 Aug 2005Hey grar,
Well yes...it's dark when the sun is on the horizon...but once the sun moves up the brightness intensity of the water should also increase.
Here are some good refs.
http://www.oceanrowing.com/Theodore_Rez ... ic/Sun.JPG
http://www.poemsinc.org/ocean1.jpg
http://www.crimea.org.ua/w_papers/sun_sea1280x1024.jpg -
15 Aug 2005I agree on you to that, but it's mostly a question of reflection on the water cause in the deep it's dark like you can see on your reference, it's all a question of what reflects cause where there's no reflection it's dark blue almost black.
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