Yeah, but what I didnt know was how to control it - [When it should start disappearing/How long should it take to finish disappearing, Which ones should even disappear at all, etc.]



Yeah, he's doing keyframe animation transfer and he's baking down the effected objects, both limiting factors IMO. You can keep it all live with ICE and add some randomness to the effect, e.g., each object/poly doesnt have to do the same thing, in the same way. With his current approach, that's not possible. Granted the man is obviously gifted, so he's probably not done working his magic, but ICE as a platform, offers more flexibility IMO.

First video, just showing a POC of the Motion Graphics system. Next set of videos will go over the compounds and ICE Trees.

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Setup Video and Compounds

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Disappear Trick

The Wave

I dont have 2012 SAP...so no Apply Thickness...[which would be sweet for this kinda stuff]. Will have to wait for the 2013 release to play with that.

One more example scene I'll do tomorrow is the "appear out of no where and fall into place" trick he did, or said another way, "assemble from pieces".

In SI, that would be: offset the particle emit position some length along the polygon normal and control visibility with a null controller object...viola!

Edit:...and just to show how superior we are to those Max shops, I'll add a vortex to the front of the effect.

Okay, for the Assemble Effect, I thought I'd do something different and do a progressive demonstration along with some scene Files.

So, here is step one, preparing the mesh for the effect.

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Here's Part 2 of the Assemble Effect [the effect is complete, but no forces....yet]

So that's basically all of the "types" of effects in the video. That should pretty much cover it unless someone request to see something.

Hi Twinsnakes,

I've been playing around with your scenes ('disappear trick' and 'wave'). Although I have had some success figuring out the what and how and made some modifications, I can't find where you set the length for the transition - my polys always keep rotating uniformly at exactly the same speed. How do I make them rotate/transform etc faster, and how do I add variation or randomness to the timing?