Saw dust effect

taurobinsonfarrar93

Hello everyone,

I need your help. I am working on my senior thesis film and have run into an issue. I have a character that has to cut wood with a chainsaw, but I cannot figure out how to create saw dust that flies out of the wood. What is the best approach for this obstacle? Should I create a particle effect in maya? Or should I just use stock footage? Please, someone help me.

zachagreg

I don't think I would recommend stock footage for your senior thesis, Maya/Houdini or FumeFX would be the way to go on this. Look up a couple of tutorials on dust dynamics in either Maya, Houdini, or Max. It wouldn't take long, probably one or two emitters with initial velocity facing the direction of the chain motion with a couple turbulence/wind fields. One emitter for dust one emitter for larger chips of wood.