New XSI training from 3DQuakers

Char­bel Koueik and his site 3DQuakers have finally released some new train­ing titles for XSI. The first one is called Tech­ni­cal Direc­tor Train­ing, Vol 1 and it is mostly a script­ing tuto­r­ial focus­ing on using Expres­sions, Scripted Oper­a­tors and even Plu­gin devel­op­ment. Another very impor­tant topic is the com­pre­hen­sion and use of vec­tors which I think is a must to under­stand for any­one striv­ing to become a tech­ni­cal director.

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.

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 …

Hiring

We are cur­rently hir­ing light­ing artists, com­pos­i­tors and ren­der artists only on the Iran­ian ter­ri­tory. You can con­tact us here:

Con­tact Page

Down­load the fol­low­ing pdfs which con­tain more info on the pro­posed jobs:

Com­posit­ing Post

Light­ing TD

More of the same

This is another scene where Roshanak has decided to dis­cover her surroundings.

Roshanak in the hallway

The movie con­sists of about 80 shots in all and cur­rently we have laid out about 25 of them.