Joe Scarr Insights Interview - Midway (2019) naval battle scenes FX breakdown
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This is one of those exclusive interviews where you get to follow the work of an amazing veteran FX artist (and Supervisor): Joe Scarr of ScanlineVFX, Montreal. On one of their most epic of film productions for 2019: Roland Emmerich's MIDWAY.
You are seeing exclusive Flowline, thinkingParticles setups that were used by Joe Scarr and his team in epic dynamic scenes in Midway. Flowline is a ScanlineVFX proprietary software.
Cebas did some catching up with Joe on what is the latest for him in Montreal. We had some humor along the way, quite tongue-in-cheek. And stay to the end for more bonus from Joe Scarr which he will announce on his TPMayhem.com You can also follow updates from both facebook.com/cebasvt and facebook.com/scanlinevfx
Joe Scarr showcased and spoke about the following major scene effects setups:
- aerial attack (opening shot): muzzle flashes, tracers (thinkingParticles Smoke Operator), road destruction (Volume Breaker), 'TP leaves', custom cutting tools, ..
- Aerial- Naval Attack: creating TP particles out of Maya data - detection of ship impacts, water hit detection, tracers connecting to colliders, Flowline-thinkingParticles explosion system, Flowline 'ocean', TDTool (off UI), smoke trails, XRef, XMesh, Asset Switching, Memory Operator ... more than 100 terrabytes!
- Wide Camera Aerial - Aircraft Carrier Attack: use of Flag Shells (Flowline), TP RGB sims for aircraft destruction, Flowline fires, plane attack scenes ...
- Aircraft Carrier Explosion: thinkingParticles-driven Flowline explosions, compositing layers, debris, TPBullet SoftBody, BT Joints, low-res cloth sim, new TP ShapeDeform operator for hires geom, Flowline splashes, Sim anchors TP export, ...
- Sailors Escape: thinkingParticles tracer smoke, spark hit tracers ..
Joe Scarr also gave a quick preview of what is to be expected in the next lineup of movie visual effects upcoming in 2020 - lots of super projects from ScanlineVFX.
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