tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42766134118636208372024-03-05T20:09:06.899-05:00Andrew SchneiderSenior Effects Technical DirectorUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276613411863620837.post-68295107933828880622015-06-28T08:06:00.003-04:002015-06-28T08:07:26.031-04:00New Website<div style="text-align: center;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276613411863620837.post-49872751054409865722013-07-28T15:49:00.002-04:002013-07-28T15:49:52.157-04:00Moving from New Amsterdam to AmsterdamAugust will be my last Month with Blue Sky Studios. In September I will be starting in the FX Department at <a href="http://www.guerrilla-games.com/">Guerrilla Games</a>, in Amsterdam.<br />
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Additionally, I have uploaded the Abstract for my 2013 SIGGRAPH talk: <i><a href="http://www.cgijedi.com/publications/aschneider_visionEffect.pdf">Crafting The Vision Effect: A Particle-Based Hologram for Epic</a></i><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276613411863620837.post-70038961636885046192013-05-16T11:46:00.002-04:002013-05-16T11:48:24.720-04:00"Epic" Tale - SIGGRAPH 2013<div class="event-detail">
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fields in 10 steps. This is geared toward FX TD's with pyro experience,
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<h2 class="title" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-size: 14px;">SIDEFX BOOTH</span></h2><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I will be presenting the destruction dust, waterspout and storm cloud work that we did for Ice Age 4 at the SideFX booth on the SIGGRAPH exhibition floor. Tuesday @ 3:00pm</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> and Wednesday @ 11:00am</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto;">.</span></div><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276613411863620837.post-44971039917086149202012-06-06T16:20:00.001-04:002012-07-26T16:11:20.689-04:00A World Of Voxels - SIGGRAPH 2012 Talk<title></title><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276613411863620837.post-47642653397133844572012-05-28T11:08:00.000-04:002012-05-28T11:23:36.977-04:00I Make Particle<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is my first attempt at making a steam effect with the UDK.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">..includes some of my work: waterspout, 3d clouds, dust </span><br />
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Two of my colleagues and I will be giving a talk on how we made the clouds and skies for Rio.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This is a simple electric arc effect that I made this morning using tools available in H10a. The goal was to have an arc of electricity jumping across two leads. I started with two spheres and used a combination of centroid and distance functions with a line node to create a line that spanned the centroids of the two spheres and would change shape to stay connected if the spheres moved. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Next, I converted the spheres and the line to separate volumes. To get the detail i wanted, I had to increase the resolution quite a bit. I prefer adjusting volume resolution by the "By Size" option but alas this is not available in the apprentice version. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Next, I dropped a volume vop below the arc volume. Inside I used anti-aliased flow noise to distort the density inside the volume. I exposed its parameters and animated the Y offset by a function of time. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Finally, Used a volume mix node to add the animated arc volume to the sphere volumes and then merged that result with the original spheres. The result is a basic arc effect that spans two leads, is animated and stays connected as the leads move.</span><br />
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