Particle fun!

[Neilg]

Had a few hours free a while back and decided to make a new desktop background.



250k sphere particles, white glossy refractive material, some coloured lights and motion blur. Did a bit of photoshop to tidy it up/bring out the colours more too.


Full res - http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs137&d=09122&f=finalg690.jpg

[simmsimaging]

Looks cool!
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[stevesideas]

Cool image. You used vray motion blur ?

[Neilg]

Yeah, it was done in the render settings and with a standard cam though.

[jophus14]

Really cool. Can you post a screen shot of the particle path? I'm confused on how this was created. I haven't played with particles in years. Thanks

[Neilg]

I was going to... but I actually cant find the scene
I think I may have simply not saved it.


It wasnt too complicated though - the camera is loooking straight down, the particles are being emitted at the bottom over time, sucked into a vortex and span around while being pushed up by negative gravity, and then there is a wind affecting it with the turbulence set up to look like a gentle summers breeze.

[rmejia]

Looks interesting, there's a nice quality to the lighting

[Adam H. Stewart]

Great ! - I can't believe it was as simple to create as you say it's so elegant, great look and feel :]

[jacksc02]

if it was so simple to set up do us an animation!

[olitech]

It wasnt too complicated though - the camera is loooking straight down, the particles are being emitted at the bottom over time, sucked into a vortex and span around while being pushed up by negative gravity, and then there is a wind affecting it with the turbulence set up to look like a gentle summers breeze.

Wow! Would be really great to see this in motion....

[Neilg]

The render times were absolutley horrible. haha.

I'm thinking of having another go at something similar. I want to do a few different shots of particles moving like this and edit it to music...
Been playing around linking volumes of audio tracks to expressions, it's way cool. Especially cutting a track down into just the bass/mid/high and having 3 things do it.

[olitech]

Yeah? How horrible?

dude, i'll render it for you if you set it up again!

[Neilg]

Haha, I'll give it a shot next week