A few weeks ago I was playing around with 9.5’s new smoke tools and solvers. Originally I was doing it to create some movement specific reference for Fay’s bat farts. Couldn’t stop playing for a while after I started though. Ron helped me figure out a bunch of stuff. Might use the setup for something more interesting eventually.

     It’s pretty simple, it’s just baking out the velocity data from a DOPs smoke sim to a sequence of .bgeo’s which then gets sampled into a vopsop inside of a particle network. Then the geometry gets generated based off of the particle trails. I’ve included an older version of the file (as my more recent ones got lost when my hard-drive broke). All you should have to do is run the ROP for the velocity attribute in smoke_object.

Been keeping relatively busy, especially with trying to get this website up (little rusty at web stuff).  Wanted to go ahead and put up some fresh content.  Nothing amazing by any means, and to be quite frank I’m farely behind schedule.  Been pretty busy at my job so I haven’t had a whole lot of time to devote to my personal projects.

So I guess my primary project right now is finishing my turtle shell shot from the summer (considering I only had 5 days to do the current version).  With some wonderful suggestions from Fay, I decided give it some life with a skeleton inside.  I’m almost done modeling/uving, and will hopefully be in zbrush soon.  Hopefully Cheryl will help to rig it, and Fay to animate. Here’s where I’m at so far.

And some comparison shots…

Got most of the site up, still tons of tweaks and compatibility issues to take care of.  Now it’s finally time to wrangle my very own first personal blog.  I’m not gonna lie, but I’m pretty excited, as silly as that is.  There’ll be many changes over the week, and once it’s all setup, I can go sanely back to work; having a warm cozy internet home to bring all my images and clips to every day.  Until then!

Hello… this is a temporary post simply informing you of what is probably painfully obvious right now.  The blog hasn’t been themed/customized whatsoever yet, and I will be getting to it as soon as I get the portfolio section of my website up.  I’m moving left to right on my header menu in terms of what sections I’m populating.  Can’t wait to have it all set up!