Show Reel 2010

I have put together my show reel for 2010. It contains most of the stuff I have posted on here in the last year.

2010 ShowReel from Doug Holder on Vimeo.

Fracture Contest

There is a contest going on in the Fracture beta forums. Basically the goal is to create a production finished shot using fracture. My original concept was grand and I had to reduce it to this. In the shot an explosion goes off blowing out the side of the building. Aside from the Fracture there are some other things going on in the shot. There is the initial explosion from the fractured geometry. The there is a nParticles sim of smaller debris flying out. Along with an additional nParticle sim of some dust flying out. A fluid sim for the explosion and the firs in the window is live footage of fire on a plane in the shot. It was just easier to track that way since I already had the track in Maya. This is the final comp result.

wallExplodeFinal from Doug Holder on Vimeo.

D.U.Die

This is one of the latest ones I have done. By ones I am referring to 1000 ways to die. In this shot the guy is drunk and pukes out the window and his head hits a mailbox decapitating him. No I know this is absurd but I just do what I'm told. In this shot I did the fluid sims, shaders (that I have been using for the whole show) and comping. One of the main issues I have with working on television projects is that there just isn't enough time to do the things you want. There are several things I would have fixed in this shot but could not in the time allotted. In any case, try to enjoy

D. U. Die | SpikeTV | SPIKE.com

Orb Effect

This is an effect I have created for a friends animation. In the animation the character is entranced by this orb that has this going on inside it. Just some Maya fluids and nParticles because the collisions for nParticles is so great.

Orb Effect from Doug Holder on Vimeo.

Another Shot I Worked On

This is a shot called "Cock a Doodle Die" but when I worked on it, the title was "Killer Cocks" which I still like better. Anyway in this shot I did much the same as the last one (rendering, shading, comping) except in this one I also did the fluid simulation. The simulation was done in realflow.

Cock A Doodle Die | SpikeTV | SPIKE.com

1000 Ways To Die Season 2

So I have been working since October on 1000 ways to die season 2. I though I'd share a couple of shots I have worked on and what I contributed to each shot. As a preface for these shots I want to stress the fact that everything you see is obviously supremely exaggerated. Ok that being said There were two I wanted to show but the other one title "Titty Titty Bang Bang" is not on Spike.com anymore so Here is one called "Nurse Case Scenario". In this one I created the magnetic pulling effect and did the shaders as well as comping. Albeit the comping is minimal for these shots and the the shaders are pretty basic. Titty Titty has some fluid sims in it that I'd like to show but I'll have to wait until it goes back up.

Nurse Case Scenario | SpikeTV | SPIKE.com

nParticles

nParticlesMeteor from Doug Holder on Vimeo.

So after Dave sent me some content on nParticles from Siggraph it made me want to dive into nParticles a little more. So I took the Shipkov/Shoneveld method for fluid shading particles in Dave's meteor tutorial, and applied the same technique to nParticles. Let me tell you, that was not as easy as I had hoped it would be. Albeit, it wasn't as hard as I'm making it sound but there were a few things that made it kind of tricky. I did like the built in curve for controlling the radius of the particles over age or ageNorm but I wanted to be able to use more of the curves to control more of the PP attributes instead of using as much of the particleSamplerInfo node. A while back Dave had me add this sonic boom like effect to the meteor I did a while ago so in the spirit of more goofing I decided to try the same effect with nParticles since the nParticles will work within the same solver and I have more control over how other nParticles are affected by each other within the solver, which is awesome. I had to kick up quite a bit of particles (300,000) but the "thick cloud" preset has a defaulted fluid shader attached to it and this made it easier to shade them accrodingly. It worked great. My only complication really was caching the nParticles. You have to make sure that in the nParticleShape node itself you need to set the cacheable attributes to "all" and make sure the box that says "cache data" under "memory caching" is checked. This caused some problems when trying to network render the sequence. I'm not sure and I haven't tested it yet but I think that because nParticles have a default fluid shader on the thick cloud preset that they handle fluid shading the particles better than normal particles. Like I said I haven't tested it yet but I could swear it moved a lot faster than the original meteor I rendered with normal particles. Anyway here is a preview of the nParticle fluid shading I did. The speed is wrong and should be faster but you can see where it was going. The real thing I would pay attention to is the sonic boom sim because this worked a lot better than I expected it to.