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I'm just starting a little excercise to make a tornado/twister and thought I would post up the work in progerss as I go about creating the rig and effect.
I'm going to use particles for this with some expressions to control everything.
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I've made it so the funnel spins slower at the edges and faster in the centre now, hopefully you can see it in the gif.
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I really really doubt that you can get more control in after effects with a 3D effect than you can in Maya with its partricles and expressions, which is what I'm using. Could you do little things like make the particles at the center spinn faster thant the outside?Originally posted by murambi
good work so far but i think this can be done in after effects with the trapcode particular effect with less rendering time and more control or im i assuming too much
Also I might link the particles to fluids for the final look and I doubt that the level of control in trapcode would let you do something like that.
As its full3D I can then also use it for whatever I need. I might get some footate, track it, load it in with some demolition objets then comp it using Toxic to give it that a go, all of which I probably would strugle with in AE.
Granted rendering time would be less but I know that I can get it looking good in Maya.
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is that particles emitting from the surface?
Yes they are emmitted onto the funnels surface before any movement and then set as an intital state.
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I really really doubt that you can get more control in after effects with a 3D effect than you can in Maya with its partricles and expressions, which is what I'm using. Could you do little things like make the particles at the center spinn faster thant the outside?
yup it would be a simple matter of duplicating the effect changing the velocity speed also abit of playing around with the turbulance and air resistance options but hey there is more than one way to skin a cat
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I also dont have trapcode which pretty much rules it out completly.
Thing is I'm not using any dynamics, its all scripted to have ubercontrol over everything, so no silly particles escaping and not doing what I want.
Ive added some ground particles to the mix.
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If your are doing a scene are you going for realism or fun??
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Its more of an excrecise in setting up the rig. Once its done I can import it into anything and adjust the animation timings, deformers etc to fit the scene.
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