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water fx
Oh and I'm not expecting this to be easy at all so I'm prepared to hear any answers to this.
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I would really suggest you "lock-off" the camera, i.e. set it on a tripod, frame your shot, and shoot.
Then extend your matte if needed by shooting high-res stills, nodal pans of the camera for extra fill footage, or straightup paint.
As far as the 3d interaction with the water surface, fluids are probably not your best choice here.
Despite its' name, fluids are better suited for gaseous effects rather than flowing water type effects.
That is where products like RealFlow come into play.
I would suggest nParticle water (Maya 2009), hardware particle spray, 2d and 3d projection to achieve the initial bulge of the object breaching the surface.
As a compositor, my first impulse would be to use multiple types of water plate footage from a high frequency waterfall with different time offsets etc. projected onto the rising geometry, along with hardware particle spray to augment the falling water off the object.
Does any of that help?
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What is your object?
Is it a character or an object like a big ship, or some non-organic object?
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I want the head to poke out of the water with it's neck and part of it's back stick up. But I know that when it's head comes out of the water, water will drip off of it and the water around it will move.
I have not modeled this yet because I didn't want to start it if I didn't think it was possible for me to do.
Oh yes the video idea was going to have some movement but I figure just a tripod with it sitting still would do just as good.
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i.e. it realistically hides your position, plus it helps with showing the scale of the environment and the creature.
Do you have any pics if the location you are going to be shooting from? And a shot of the lake from that location?
I'm just looking for things to track as a close-up of the lake water itself is not going to track, as it moves erraticly like tree leaves, etc.
We could create the surface water in post or in Maya if we had to once we get a good track in the event you wish to move the camera.
Also, to help sell it as an accidental video capture, camera moves and subtle zooms and defocusing in post will really help sell it also.
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and if you're interested here's a video from monsterquest on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S5xFAavj1s
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Looks pretty fun, cant wait to see you start work on it.
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The only reason I was thinking of a possible different place it because of where sightings have been, but then again, who's to say the monster doesn't travel? haha.
I will get to work on this so I can start the hard, and hopefully fun part of the project.
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