The Art of Destruction - Production Workflows for Explosions

# 1 15-12-2011 , 07:59 PM

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The Art of Destruction - Production Workflows for Explosions

FXguide has posted a really interesting article with some cool clips about destruction simulations and how they blow stuff up at major VFX houses today.

Read the article on FXguide

Impressive VFX work from Digital Domain on 2012

2012 Movie - Making of video - YouTube

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# 2 15-12-2011 , 09:08 PM

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Interesting, I'll have to take a further look through it. Thanks for sharing!

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# 3 15-12-2011 , 09:42 PM

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Does any one know how meny people worked on this and how long it took............dave

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# 4 16-12-2011 , 07:50 AM

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Does any one know how meny people worked on this and how long it took............dave

Originally Posted by daverave

The 2012 clip? According to IMDB, 758. user added image

I also came across this little gem: https://www.popularmechanics.com/tech...ffects/4336701

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# 5 16-12-2011 , 09:13 AM

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Well it inspired me to go and get a copy of Dynamica. Rigid body simulations in Maya are very poor I've always used nCloth or skipped Maya altogether and used Realflow.

Have not had a chance to really use DMM yet but as it comes out the box with a simulation limit I thought i'd give the bullet physics a go (Dynamica). Did this in a few minutes 500 separate objects simulated in real time, I was pretty impressed it's much better than trying to get anything usable out of maya's ridged body system and it's simple to use.

Here is a couple of test's note it's not meant to be AWESOME lol I just wanted to see what the performance was like with 500 separate bits of geo. Simulated in real-time for me so like i say quite impressed.

Dynamica Test 2 - YouTube

Dynamica Test 1 - YouTube

If you have not tried it you can grab it here https://bulletphysics.org/mediawiki-1...ynamica_Plugin

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# 6 16-12-2011 , 01:01 PM

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Cheers for the links David,
am currently playing about with Dynamica, it really does seem much better than Maya dynamics, using your tutorial on solid shattering and the plug in I've managed to blow up several walls and a pillar...lol
I'm going to try adding some smoke effects and comping them together later, just want to play about with it a little more first.

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# 7 16-12-2011 , 01:51 PM

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Bored at work day!

Needs lots and lots of work but the fact it took only a few minutes to get this is a huge step up from Maya's inbuilt system.

Dynamica Test 3 - YouTube

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# 8 17-12-2011 , 03:04 PM

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I have been playing with it with a array of balls, on your last reel did you use a radial field on as I get simular result using that, it calculates fast, just noticed that there are some nice tools also frame delay............dave

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