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The growing vine shot for Farore

Published: January 13th 2021, 11:36:19 pm

Hello everyone! I would like to share with you these little behind a scene test that I made for a shot in the intro with the 3 godesses. This shot was really complex to setup and I had to make different test before getting it right.  I had several questions in mind.

How to make a vine?
How to animate it and make it grow?
How can I export this into Unreal engine?

Once I found the answer to these 3 questions by doing different test I wanted something more impressive for the viewer. 

What if the vines come from under the ground and move in and out with the ground breacking in pieces at the same time?

In order to make the ground break, I had to make a simulation in 3ds max. But even at this point I couldn't get the vines interacting with the ground. I didn't know why. 

So I came with another strategy. I used a simple sphere that I animated a long the vines. So the ground is actually breaking thanks to that little sphere. I then replaced the sphere with the vines  and everything was working perfectly.

For the final shot I thought that having 2 vines and the camera following them in the middle would be really impressive so I simply duplicated what I did with some offset and voila 😅