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Master destruction effects

n visual effects, keyframe and use an activator – a simple Gnomon holds masterclasses
animation and simulation cube synced to the motion of and speaker events like this most
i are often done in separate the ship – to unfreeze them as weeks, and they’re usually free to
software packages. In this tutorial, the ship reaches them. Once watch. If you want more training
I’m going to show you how to the simulation is complete, we’ll like this, it’s worth keeping an
AutHor create a simulation of a spaceship import the animated geometry eye on the Events section of its
crashing through a wall in Maya back into Maya. website: https://www.gnomon.
Wayne and Houdini, using the kind of The walkthrough is based on edu/community/events.
Hollingsworth workflow you would encounter in a masterclass I gave at Gnomon
Wayne has worked a real-world production. – School of Visual Effects, Games
as a senior FX TD The geometry and the and Animation in Los Angeles
at Sony Pictures animation of the ship have already last year. You will need some ABout GNoMoN
Imageworks, Psyop been created in Maya. We’re experience with Houdini in order Gnomon – School of Visual Effects, Games and
and Zoic Studios. He going to export the wall geometry to follow it, and the process is too Animation, specialises in computer graphics
was also Education to Houdini in Alembic format, complicated to explain everything education for careers in the entertainment
Lead: Technology break it into pieces using Voronoi in detail here, but you can watch industry. The school recently launched its first
at Gnomon – shattering, then make the pieces the full recording on Gnomon’s accredited baccalaureate degree, a four-year
School of Visual fly apart under the impact of the Livestream channel at http://bit.ly/ BFA in Digital Production, designed to produce
Effects, Games and ship using the Bullet rigid body GnomonDestructionMasterclass. production-ready artists who are versed in
Animation. dynamics solver. In the video, I also explore other general academic knowledge, foundational arts,
http://bit.ly/ To make sure the pieces don’t topics such as adding some extra and production skills.
WayneHollingsworth start to move too early, we’re debris to the shot using Maya’s http://www.gnomon.edu
going to freeze them in place, particle systems.

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