VFX Report 1

FAIRY BREAD PRODUCTIONS 

Week(s) Commencing: 1st March - 20th March 2021

VFX

HOD: Edwin Nicholson

Crew: Ian Jenkins, Vinnie Webb, Becca Akersten

Summary:

This report covers 3 weeks of VFX work and R&D.
In the first week I wanted to learn the best way to do water simulations. The scenes in mind for the water sims were the following:
  • Slight bathroom overflow at the beginning
  • Slow water rising in the restaurant.
  • Rough water rising in the restaurant.
  • Splashing into the restaurant bathroom.
At first I was aiming for every scene using particle based water sims as the water would interreact with 3d surfaces. As later into R&D this would turn out to be the wrong way to go.
My team started off looking for as many tutorials as we could find. Below is every water tutorial documented so far in APA formatting.

References for Water Simulations

3D Tinkerer. (2020, December 17). Learn Blender's NEW Water Physics in 6 minutes! (Blender 2.9+) [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3mhJXuveFo

3D Vision. (2019, September 21). Blender 2.8(EEVEE) Pure-Toon Water 1.0 "Introduction" [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb0CeXZbPk8

3dEx. (2019, November 30). Substance Designer - Stylized Water Material [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNLE42VlfqE

3DMacDaddy. (2008, July 9). Maya Tutorial 9 : Water Shader [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABSgzJI6p3g

Bubble pins. (2019, July 29). FLIP Simulation Infinite Water Flow like Rivers in Houdini [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM5LqXjmKlA

CG Geek. (2020, March 10). the New Blender Fluid Simulator is AWESOME - MantaFlow Tutorial [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYc_6fXEjw4

Dedene, K. (2020, September 10). Tutorial: Anime style water FX caustics and sparkle for Blender [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbCibu2isB8

Default Cube. (2021, January 12). Water Simulations Are OBSOLETE (kinda) [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOjdawIazlk

Kalyson. (2020, April 21). Substance Designer - Stylized Water Material [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAr6peQoqlc

McKelvie, J. (2018). How to Make Stylized Water in UE4 with Project Files. ArtStation - Explore. https://www.artstation.com/artwork/veV1a

Moby Motion. (2020, May 10). Tutorial - Beautiful Water Feature Fluid Simulation in Blender 2.82 and Mantaflow [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlkbeIv6kBM

Oby 1. (2020, April 25). UNDERWATER GODRAYS AND CAUSTICS IN BLENDER- FAST! - TUTORIAL [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmk09JJNKJU

Sketches For Humanity. (2020, May 5). Making an animated toon water shader for Eevee | Blender 2.8 Tutorial [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTIsEJvQddw

Sureda, M. (2017). Stylized Water Shader. ArtStation - Explore. https://www.artstation.com/artwork/X9kEn

TRIOS30. (2016, June 20). Corridor flood tutorial [maya bifrost] (2/4) [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCtcdX4M-30

Zhu, A. (2020, December 25). The Art of Illusion - Niagara Simulation Framework Overview [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cKgZrrBJ2w

With these tutorials, I manage to narrow down what we will use in the Animation.
  • Bathroom/Restaurant bathroom will use Particle Animations (Real Water Sims).
  • Water below the table before Pavo's Extreme breakdown will use water effects from 'Water Simulations Are OBSOLETE (kinda)' tutorial. (Fake Water).
  • Water in Pavo Extreme Breakdown and running to the bathroom will be made with water from the 'Making an animated toon water shader for Eevee | Blender 2.8 Tutorial' Tutorial. (Fake Water).
  • Textures for fake water could be made from the 'Making an animated toon water shader for Eevee | Blender 2.8 Tutorial' Tutorial.
From the list its seems that Blender and Houdini are the two major places for which to develop water simulations. Maya has very limited tutorials. But we will see what we can do with it.
Here's what we have been doing.
Ian and I have been making tests in Blender with huge success. before the 20th we have made 2 final rendered shots with 3 other tests.
I also have been learning Blender for this project.
Becca has been working on Water Sims in Maya with Bifrost. Its also looking good.
Vinnie has been looking up water tutorials for Maya, He couldn't find any tutorials that weren't behind  pay wall.

Ian's Water Sim Test in Blender
Ian's Water test in Unreal 4


Edwin's Water Sim Test in Blender



Tasks before next report:

  • Finalize what Render App we are using (Blender/Maya).
  • Wait for the script to be finalised.
  • Figure out what other VFX shots need to be made.

 

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