Volcano

Here's my volcano! I did the lava in RealFlow and everything else in Maya, including 2d to 3d texturing on the lava so that it would move with the flow. The 3d smoke is also done in Maya, along with all other texturing, glows, and lighting.

Fur

I was very interested in seeing if I could recreate an real animal's fur, rather than just making it up. So I chose a deer, here are my normal, wet, and dry versions of deer fur. I used Maya for all the fur effects.

Explosion

Here are some videos of my very first explosion. The first one here is the final shot for our production (which will be posted, in full, very soon).




This second one is a shot of the entire explosion, it's own asset that can be used wherever else I will ever need it.




I have one more shot of it in stereoscopic 3D (the red-and-blue-glasses kind) but I have to re-compress that.

Cloth Deformer on Wacky Wailing Flailing Inflatable Tube Man!

This is my wacky wailing flailing inflatable tube man. He's mainly just cloth with a couple air-fans inside and outside of him to keep him filled up and standing.