10-82

Introduction

After almost two years of learning visual effects at Visual Magic, my class finally got the opportunity to show how far we have come. The assignment was six weeks of work and did not have many other restrictions but preferably to make a study of something in the area that you want to work with in the future.

For me that was FX.

10-82 is about a fireman who experiences the worst case scenario during a not so unusual mission. 

Breakdown video

Storyboard

Procedural house model

The house is made procedurally in Houdini, which means that I can change things whenever I need. The size of the house was not fully decided so it was nice having so much control if something would change. 

Texture

Grass FX

Fire breakdown

Explosion layers

I looked at a ton of references for this explosion and I saw that it often times was made out of multiple layers. First the impact explosion which dissipates rather quickly. After that comes the burning gas explosion and then the smoke that it leaves behind. To be able to implement the explosion more in to the scene I used some of the debris from the RBD simulation to source more fire.