Particle systems - Fire, Ash and Foam.

This isn't complete. I wasn't able to get any animations saved, key frames won't work, and the whole reactor thing. The picture I have here is just to show where I'm at now so when you see what I have tomorrow you'll see where I was going with it. Here I have some "sparks" coming up out of the fire and "ash" falling down. There is a gravity force in place that effects the sparks and ash. The green "foam" coming out of FSR-X's nozzles are just meta particles. My intention will be to have them impact a wall that is on fire and gravity will cause the foam to slowly drip down.

If I can get key frames and an animation to work, I'll have FSR-X traverse his nozzles from right to left leaving a dripping trail of foam on the wall. There will also be a wave deformation that will move through the fire, hopefully bring some life to the otherwise static "flames".

Stay tuned...

Creepy Hand! (totally awesome!)

I'm pretty pleased with the outcome of this hand project. My intention was to make a monster hand (like a werewolf) and I think it turned out well. I couldn't find a good texture for a wolf-man or vampire hand, but I did find a cool "monster skin" texture. The nails are a horn texture that I already had. I had some trouble getting the texture applied perfectly, you may see some issues in some of the shots, but overall I really like it. It looks like a zombie or ghoul hand (or an ogre hand according to my daughter). Let me know what you think!



This is my favorite shot.




I added a mirror for these last few shots.



Organic Modeling - Hand

This week we went from the industrial and mechanical modeling of the snowspeeder to the organic modeling for a hand. Definitely very cool and a lot of fun, but much harder to get looking right. A lot more tweaking is needed to refine the object. The snowspeeder was a lot of straight lines and primitive shapes. A hand.... well, it's more difficult.

Below are a few shots of the hand I'm trying to make. It's not nearly done. I'm trying to make a werewolf/witch looking hand. Would have been cooler if it was finished for Halloween, but oh well.

Rebel Snowspeeder

Here is my snowspeeder after more work, texture and a couple lights that didn't want to cooperate. It's not the normal color scheme, but I do have in my hand a Star Wars Action Fleet snowspeeder from 1995 that inspired my model. Obviously more detail can be added to this craft, but this is as far as I've gotten with it.