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Animondays - The Ebb and Flow of Magic

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Animondays - The Ebb and Flow of Magic

Using After Effects ‘Caustics’ to make Wisps of Energy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgCjvX2637I&feature=channel_video_title
from Elemental Forums

Greetings,

Just a short entry this week, since I’m working on cutscenes, which need to stay under-wraps for a while.

One of the shots you’ll be seeing when FE hits 1.0 involves...GASP...shards of magic ;)  One polish points I wanted to pull off was to have the magic from the crystals wisp off and either dissipate or come back to to the shard.

I got pretty close to this effect at a different time when playing with ‘caustics’: the simulation of water refraction. It took around 5 tries, but I think I got the effect looking less like soap and more like flowing magic, all while keeping within the art style.

 

Keep in mind that this is only a small part of the scene, but these are the cool little effects that we’re giving more attention to in FE, making the overall presentation more polished.

I’ll try to have something more action-packed for next weeks animation journal :)

 

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Reply #26 from Elemental Forums Top

Hm... am I going blind? There was a new thread with a video (this one) of the new land scapes, but it now has vanished? My bookmark to it points to nowhere now.

Reply #27 from Elemental Forums Top

Not blind, I saw it this morning, too.  Showed some cool new terrain work from FE, but the post is gone from the front page now.

 

It's still up on youtube, though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv0PIxLTM18

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Reply #28 from Elemental Forums Top

I replied in that thread you meant Vandenburg and am puzzled to see it has dissapeared, seems unusual

Reply #29 from Elemental Forums Top

One big question I have is  this: will the system requirements be the same as wom, I really hope so since I am playing wom on a laptop with an nivida 8200, and it would seriously suck people like me with there crappy computer got the game free or for a discount only to find out that they could not run it.

Reply #30 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting chrisbremer, reply 29
One big question I have is  this: will the system requirements be the same as wom, I really hope so since I am playing wom on a laptop with an nivida 8200, and it would seriously suck people like me with there crappy computer got the game free or for a discount only to find out that they could not run it.
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Reply #31 from Elemental Forums Top

oh I know, if my processor which is a  amd turion dule-core rmt-700 cant run it then I am sunk, but judging from what I saw it should be fine,

Reply #32 from Elemental Forums Top

What happened to Animondays?  I enjoyed these little nuggets of info....

Reply #34 from Elemental Forums Top

I have some vids recorded for them, but we have some milestones we're trying to hit and some of the content can't be shown until the next marketing push.

I'll try to get something up next week :)  Glad you guys dig them!