BA Volume shader for clouds

Pitcher · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 4:56 pm Post subject: BA Volume shader for clouds

Hello

This is a commercial we did a while back - hero clouds were rendered with BA Volume on ICE point clouds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfLVMFDO99E

Hero clouds were modeled and used as volume emitters then rendered with Holgers built-in volume shader. This allowed easy positioning of clouds were required, ie. for the bed and the clock in the foreground. Distant background cloud layers were created using Vue.

For Holger: Images and the movie may be used at your discretion while mentioning Gimmick VFX/We Love People as authors.

Cheers
Morten Bartholdy
Gimmick VFX

ActionArt · Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 3:24 am Post subject:

Very nice! Great look on the clouds.
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Pitcher · Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 2:33 pm Post subject:

Thanks! I was never able to achieve quite the same look with Ba_Volume clouds as with Vue (spectral) but with Vue, hero clouds leave a lot to be desired, so I have chosen to use it for bigger cloudscapes and layers of clouds, and then use BA_Volume clouds for hero clouds.

Morten
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Colorshop VFX
Denmark