Jordanov : Embergen Challenge

Events Challenge II: Embergen - Bombardment!
#1

DISCLAIMER : This post isn’t political or don’t aim to. Sorry in advance if I hurt someone’s sensibility or subject, wasn’t my intention.

Latest WIP :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZogVBjXy5Q&feature=youtu.be

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So let’s start with the idea and the moodboard :
I think I will dig into Vietnam’s War area, looking for a cool Napalm explosion looking. Started to dig into reference and footages :

Looking into film scenography, I love some shapes and explosions in Apocalypse Now :

And some kind of other footages :

So for the effect, I will have 3 main shape and simulation :

  • A first one with fumigene, like the scene in Apocalypse Now. A big smoke simulation to target the bombardement point
  • A second one with phosphore explosion, the one in white in the first vidéo. Like the shape it give, and add more contrast on the whole explosion
  • A third one with a couple of simultaneous deflagration, with the start of a burning forest to the end.

I hope I will do as much as idea I have for this, and don’t know yet if I aim a more realistic shape for a Napalm explosion, as we can see on the first footage, or more Holywoodian one, with big oil explosion and deflagration.
I will post soon a WIP, since I setup all my scene, the next thing to do now is : BIG SIMULATION in Embergen !

Good luck everyone :smiley:

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#2

Hello there !
It’s been a while since I came here.

To be fairly honnest, I didn’t manage to give enough time to this Challenge Participation as much as I wanted, and the only moment where I could really work on it was this last week end…

So, I decided to post my current project for the deadline, but I clearly know it’s barely finish… But this motivate me to finish this effect, in order to be as much cool as it was in my head :smiley:

So here is my current WIP :

This is my first WIP, with my first simulations in Embergen, and my first blockout of my effect. (and you can clearly see I didn’t make time to create the blueprint and all the system, because we can see me using my mouse cursor to move the plane :sweat_smile: )

I know there is a lot of work to do again, but if you have any feedback anyway, I’ll be glad to here them !

Here is the different step I would do to improve this effect for the future :

  • Making some new simulations for the smoke grenade and for the explosion
  • Improve the timing of the explosion
  • Add phosphore explosion simumation before the landing bomb to break the monotony of the effect
  • Making the explosion more impactful
  • Making the environment react to the explosion

As I said, there is a lot to do, but I get a lot of fun experimenting with Embergen, and I’ll be glad to buy an indie license to finish this, to reach a level of quality so I can be proud of my effect :slight_smile:

Good luck for all challenger :smiley:

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#3

Here’s a quick reminder that this Challenge closes this evening! Don’t forget to submit your final video to JangaFX using this Form if you’ve yet!

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#4

Yeah, I was aware of that, but I decided not to take part into the final judgment, since I consider my effect not done :slight_smile:

So good luck for those who make it in time :smiley:

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