Beach Scene With Waves

[Mike T]

Has anyone created an beach scene a animation with rolling waves. I'm and ex-architect new renderer and worked on a project as an architect that was on the beach, and in their animation that had the beach with water that was excellent. I'm now trying to recreate this but it doesn't seem like a procedural thing that they did. It seems like an RPC or something they bought and just through it in there scene, maybe postproduction.

 

Any suggestions on how this is done, oh I use Max9,Vray1.5, and photoshop CS2.

[colinsmith]

Decent looking breaking waves are a very hard thing to do.

 

If you really have to do them I would look at shooting video and compositing it, or if it has to be 3d, then really trying to keep it as a small background element.

[Ernest Burden III]

One of the entrants of last year's AVC contest did a piece with spectacular waves. I forget which one, but I think he is French and I PMed him to ask how he did that and the answer was Vue D'Esprit software.

 

There is a plugin for Cinema4D that does water and waves very well. I've done waves without the breakers on a beach part by animating noise for displacement.

[Mike T]

I've played around with the Vue trial and that seems like it has the capability to do this but I didn't actually get to recreate it becuase of the trial limits. I don't know if it's worth buying eventhough it's not that expensive.

 

Would you suggest that or Cinema4d? What's good about Vue is it's simple you can learn it in a day or so but i don't know what the finished quality is.

[Jim Mann]

If its a locked off shot, I would consider the comp route suggested by colinsmith. I have been mucking around with a personal project for a while now and orignially looked at doing the thing that way. I took some footage at Redcar in the North East of England (its pretty grim there, town and north sea) and the great thing that you get is noise of the sea. I ended up painting the project in photoshop rather than using 3D or animation so discarded the footage, but the sounds were great. Of course, if you were to move the camera, you would need to track your camera move or go all 3D.

 

JM

[Ernest Burden III]

if you were to move the camera, you would need to track your camera move or go all 3D.

 

If you wanted to cheat I would suggest a basic linear camera move and then distorting some wave footage so you match two points from the start to the end. That would be hard to pull off, but it could work for a few seconds if you had good sound effects and something in the shot more interesting than the waves.

[Mike T]

This is a clip from the scene that I was talking about. I had to clip it and lower the res. After looking at it with different eyes, it seems like they took footage of a beach and intergrated it in postproduction like you suggested. What do you think?

[Jim Mann]

"The Compressed (zipped) Folder is invalid or corrupted"

 

Might be just me, anybody else able to open it?

[Tommy L]

The clip works fine (plays in wmp9 anyway). And the waves look great. I think they are an animated material, because it tiles. Or it may be done in post, I cant tell. Do you know who did it? It would be great to get a tutorial from the artist themselves.

[Mike T]

Sorry it took so long to reply, the guys that did this is Spline 3d out of the Ukraine , not to be confused with Spine 3d here in Miami. I worked with them pretty close but I don't know if they are releasing any secrets.

 

If it's not footage that's being placed in the clip, then it has to be Vue 6 or something like that. Have you seen anything that can do that?