April 2008

Earth, Wind and Fire?!?!

When this project started out we knew that based on the story we had we would have to cre­ate a few effects but the fur­ther we went into the pro­duc­tion, the more we came across scenes that needed some kind of sim­u­la­tion. The first obvi­ous ones, not sur­pris­ingly, were the rain effects (the movie IS called “Rain”!) but even these were not as obvi­ous as we ini­tially thought.

Field of flowers problem

We are cur­rently work­ing on a scene which will con­tains a large field of flow­ers and veg­e­ta­tion. Cur­rently our effects expert, Adib Souly is work­ing and test­ing dif­fer­ent sce­nar­ios in Sof­t­im­age XSI. You can see a sim­ple con­cept we did (this was done in a rush by Faraz Shan­yar) that was done to help us envi­sion the den­sity and dis­tri­b­u­tion of the veg­e­ta­tion we would need.

But the prob­lem was much thornier than we expected …