ICM Studios Demolishes Building!

I hope you enjoy our latest addition to the library of destruction! Yet again, we have used Fracture-FX to simulate the demolition. I can't recommend a better plug-in for Maya to fracture and destroy your assets. you can get the software at http://www.fracture-fx.com/. The shot was rendered with Mental Ray and comped in Nuke. I used motion vectors to add the motion blur as well as adding a little depth of filed using Mental Ray's depth pass. A little bit of colour correction and lens distortion was added too.

New ICM Studios Idents coming soon!

I have started working with Jonathan Hearn on some new ideas for some Idents for ICM Studios. We are in the early stages of production but we should have something in the next couple of weeks :)

Below is a previous test Ident I created using Maya, Fracture-FX and Renderman Studio.

It should be fun :)

Bubbles Generation using nParticles

FX Tools, Maya Particles

Latest update on Destruction Project

Latest version of the project - I have added the impact of the metorite. Also a little bit more animation has been done - a lot more tweaking is needed. A render will follow in the next couple of weeks (hopefully)!

Custom Renderman Shaders & Realflow

I been writing a custom Renderman shader - it still needs work but here is the current code and examples as to what it looks like!

Video Examples:

Bob | Realfow Simulation | Custom Renderman Shader | Iskander Mellakh from iskander mellakh on Vimeo.

Custom Renderman Shader | Iskander Mellakh from iskander mellakh on Vimeo.

Here is the code:

1. surface im_mottleNoise(
2.           uniform color myColor = color(0,1,0);
3.           uniform float myOc = 0.1;
4.           uniform float roughness = 0.1;
5.           float Km = 1.0;
6.           float face = 1.0;
7.           float mag = 0.0;
8.           uniform float freqency = 1.0;
9. )
10. {
11.           float size = 1.0,
12.           magnitude = 0.0,
13.           i;
14.           point P2;
15.           P2 = transform ("shader", P);
16.           for (i = 0; i <6.0; i+= 1.0){
17.                    magnitude += abs (.5 - noise (P2 * size) * freqency) / size;
18.           }
19. 
    
20.           P2 = P - normalize (N) *(magnitude * magnitude * magnitude) *Km * mag;
21.           N = calculatenormal(P2);
22.           normal Nn = normalize (N);
23.           vector In = normalize(-I);
24.           normal Nf = faceforward(Nn,-I);
25.           normal Nb = faceforward(Nn,I);
26.           //Oi = myOc * diffuse(Nf * -face);
27.           //Oi = myOc * face + specular(Nf, In, roughness);
28.           Oi = myOc;
29.           Ci = myColor *Oi * diffuse(Nb) + specular(Nf, In, roughness);
30. }

Raspberry Pi Testing!

I received my Raspberry Pi earlier in the week, just getting used to the seeing a computer so small!!!

Below are some images of the Raspberry Pi. I have tested out a few basic Python scripts. Great Fun :)