Some Random Technical Updates xD

Hey all, apologies for the delay, August has been a very busy month in terms of irl work and learning this vfx stuff. It's definitely been fun learning new stuff but oh man... why do I do this to myself hahaha. Before I get into the technical stuff, just want to let you all know animation and render for Marie vs Hitomi is finished, will be posting it tomorrow once I get some sleep, also will be commissioning a VA to do voice and sfx, so will be posting that once its ready too !

Now, just me rambling about my process on learning this new vfx stuff, feel free to click off if its not something you want to read xD. So the dust particle is quite simple to do after the initial setting up, generate some points and make it interact with the environment, then convert them into volume to look like fog so I can render it. Here are the results :

Dust_FootStomp_Preview

Dust_SlowmoKick_Preview

Probably could have done it with green screen stock footage but this saves me time on editing the stock footage to match the movement while simulating it allows me to have more control, so there's pros and cons. Now the mouth foaming part its what drives me crazy. Similar method, generate points, make them interact and then figure out how to make it move slow and sticky, the base fluid works fine but the foam bubble just doesn't seem to work and I couldn't find any tutorial online to match what I want to do. So first result is the bubble jittering all over the base fluid, making look very weird. Took me 2 days to figure out how to achieve an acceptable result :

Foam_Test

I got the bubble staying in place so that's great right ? Well the render result wasn't great because a lot of smaller bubbles are found inside big bubbles so since bubbles are transparent, lots of weird black errors appears when rendering because they are all overlapping each other. And that took another day of slamming my head on the keyboard xD

I could go into more technical explaining the process but that multiple paragraphs and I would'nt want that haha. So here's a short clip of the things I was working for the past few days.

BehindTheScenes

If you are still here reading, thanks for reading my ramblings, just feel like sharing about my process here, also good news is since I gotten these stuff down, future work that requires similar vfx will be much easier. I would say certainly worth it haha. That's all for now and look forward to Hitomi mouth foaming KO tomorrow hehe. Meanwhile here's Nyotengu representing me getting brain fried during the past few days.