Missile Launch
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 7:49 am
Being goofy. Made this missile trail and explosion.
http://www.vimeo.com/13903009
Some brief notes...
Problem
Wanted to make the trail pass in front of and the behind part of the land scape.
Solution
Simply make a mask for the part that the trail needs to go behind.
Had considered key framing layer order but I think this would have made the trail disappear in a bad way.
Problem
When I moved the emitter around quickly and this caused the smoke trail to move along a bit with the emitter creating a strange moving trail.
Solution
I increased the dampening settings. This made it so the smoke wouldn't move very much so I also had to increase the velocity to get a little movement of the smoke drifting downward.
Problem
Needed a simple way to indicate dust was coming from the explosion.
Solution
Simply added a haze layer for each hill layer and animated the opacity. Then added some tiny particles to sell the impact of the dust reaching the camera.
http://www.vimeo.com/13903009
Some brief notes...
Problem
Wanted to make the trail pass in front of and the behind part of the land scape.
Solution
Simply make a mask for the part that the trail needs to go behind.
Had considered key framing layer order but I think this would have made the trail disappear in a bad way.
Problem
When I moved the emitter around quickly and this caused the smoke trail to move along a bit with the emitter creating a strange moving trail.
Solution
I increased the dampening settings. This made it so the smoke wouldn't move very much so I also had to increase the velocity to get a little movement of the smoke drifting downward.
Problem
Needed a simple way to indicate dust was coming from the explosion.
Solution
Simply added a haze layer for each hill layer and animated the opacity. Then added some tiny particles to sell the impact of the dust reaching the camera.
