Effects

Hairy Gorilla

Hairy Gorilla concept

This char­ac­ter was also cre­ated by Reza Ramezani who did the mod­el­ing, hair and tex­tures using Hamed Kamali’s con­cept designs. The mod­el­ing was done in XSI and ZBrush, tex­tur­ing was also done in ZBrush

Gorilla in a T stance

We are cur­rently work­ing on the shad­ing in order to fine-tune some small issues and in the near future we will pos­si­ble start rig­ging and ani­mat­ing this lovely gorilla, so stay tuned.

Pipe Smoke Simulation

In this short post I am going to talk about how we used and inte­grated built-in XSI par­ti­cle sys­tem to make smoke sim­u­la­tion for our pipe smoker char­ac­ter in Vishka Studio’s cur­rent short ani­mated movie Baran.

Please notice that I’m not going to talk about dynam­ics here, I just want to talk about the look of smoke sim­u­la­tion here.

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.

baran title

For those of you won­der­ing what our title means, it is a tem­po­rary title for our movie which means “rain” in {en:Persian}