Mr.nuget

Mr.Nuget

been a fan of league of legends for a long time hope i'm not to late i want in

Sirhaian

Nah, you still have a bit more than a month!
Welcome and have fun!

Mr.Nuget

so after thinking about what i would like to make, I decided to do a vfx with zed involving his shurikens. the idea is to make his shurikens leave a crack on the floor while they pass by and also leave a shadow trail. i love working with dynamics and smoke so i ill just stick to what i know. will be done in 3ds max and maya and maybe houdini if needed.

Mr.Nuget

so this is my reference, i know it might be messy but that's how i like it xD,
any who for the shurikens passing by, and leaving the crack trail, and the smoke trail i have braums ulti reference begin that that's how i want it to look well kind of, plus malphites crystal cracks coming out of the crack. As my reference the kind of crack i want to go for is the bottom left picture that kind of size, no braum ulti size begin that that's a little to big im still searching for a lot more reference especially for the smoke. but for now this is what i have for my WIP.

Mr.Nuget

not the best concept artist but.. this is pretty much a fast concept that i made. Showing the crack and the grey smoke....ish lol

Mr.Nuget

so i created a simple set up, and wanted to test it by adding in the cracking floor effect it still need's loads of work but this is pretty much the first test of a lot xD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLfG6zk6wY8&feature=youtu.be

Mr.Nuget

what i might do is adding in more fractures. There for making less big chunky pieces.

sk_petey

looks good for the first test! start collecting some referance textures as well!

Mr.Nuget

Yeah...for the ground texture I'm planning on keeping it like the new summoners rift map ground texture.

For example

Mr.Nuget

This is another example for my ground texture

Mr.Nuget

Also once the shrunken has reached its travel distances limit, i would like it to disappear into smoke it will be challenging but i love a challenge .

Flylink

You'll do this challenge in pre-rendering?

Good luck!

Sirhaian

Yeah, good luck. Time is really important, and pre-rendering takes away a lot of it.
But as sk_petey said, it really looks good for a first test.
I really wonder how everyone makes those fractures. Never tried it. xD

Mr.Nuget

thanks hope i can finish this before the deadline, the smoke will probably be the hardest thing.

Mr.Nuget

Flylink wrote: »

You'll do this challenge in pre-rendering?

Good luck!

no i will be rendering the final piece. For now i'm just doing play blast test with real time, that way i don't waste so much time rendering each test

Mr.Nuget

i finished blocking out my shuriken, i'll polish it later on these were my reference's.

Mr.Nuget

my blocking.

Mr.Nuget

Sirhaian wrote: »

Yeah, good luck. Time is really important, and pre-rendering takes away a lot of it.
But as sk_petey said, it really looks good for a first test.
I really wonder how everyone makes those fractures. Never tried it. xD

making fractures is easy once you get the hang of them xD

Mr.Nuget

so here's a WIP, of the shuriken vanishing once it reaches its travel distance

i'm having issues with the normals still trying to fix it up.

(Edit) fixed i just had the normal's facing the wrong way

Lokii288

what program are you using for this, maya did you say?

Mr.Nuget

for know im using 3ds max, ill be using maya or Houdini for the smoke

Mr.Nuget

WIP.. another test now with the shuriken's despairing, its a very early test i have not rotated the shurikens yet btw .. sorry for the low quality

Lokii288

the image isn't working for me, idk about anyone else :L

Mr.Nuget

i need a better gif maker lol

Mr.Nuget

another view

Mr.Nuget

top view cause the other view's you cant really see it.

Sirhaian

Hey, looking nice!

Mr.Nuget

thanks

Sirhaian

You could try to use the program I'm using for gifs: ScreenToGif.

Mr.Nuget

yeah im gonna try that thanks