Ian Farnsworth – Demo Reel 2011 from Ian Farnsworth on Vimeo.

This might as well be called my “SuckerPunch” reel since so much of this reel is work from the work I did on that movie while at Prime Focus (and it’s not even all of it). Anyway, this has been sitting on my HD for a while now.. figured I might as well share it. Enjoy!

Special thanks to the talented crews I’ve worked with!

Original Hi-Res mov: www.fx-td.com/content/Farnsworth_Demoreel_2011.mov

My first real try at a PyroFX explosion. Nothing fancy, but it turned out decently for how little time I spent on it. Low Res grid is 50x50x100 and UpRes grid is 150x150x300. Sim time was ~1 hr with the UpRes taking most of the time. Render time was ~6 hrs with scattering.

Here’s two awesome dvd’s you should check out if you’re into FX (specifically Max)…

https://sites.google.com/site/m3dgptpprojects/home/tp4-projects/dvd-projects/tp4_dvd-1 << Thinking Particles 4.0 for Production by Joe Scarr and Goran Pavles.  A great dvd for n00bs and pros alike. Joe is an excellent teacher and goes through everything in a very easy to understand manner. I strongly suggest this if you are learning Thinking Particles.

http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/store/product/920/Production-FX-Workflows << Production FX Workflows: Dragon Age: Origins by Brandon Young.  Brandon runs step by step through an awesome fx shot from a cinematic done at Blur Studio.  He goes over a bit of Fume, a bit of Pflow and a bit of Fusion as well.  Brandon rocks.

Just seeing what it can do…

4 hrs when simming via Hbatch!… and didn’t max out my ram either. ~700k particles this time around… will mesh later.

Just testing out the new solver in Houdini 11. It does a good job compared to H10… way faster, but my computer still lacks the ram necessary to do any fluid solver justice.
The scene is approx 20×20 meters… was over 10hrs to get to this point in the sim (with the meshing (quite blobbly!) + custom color vop) for only ~280k particles at mostly default settings. …will have to do a Realflow5 test of similar setup soon.

—Edit — New Reel Posted Above!—

On a side note, I’ve been working with a few guys on making some tools for Realflow 5 (I’m doing the coding, they’re doing the ideas / helping me with the direction)… we’ve got some really neat stuff in the works… more on that later though.   

–Ian