Caterpillar Longwall Animation

Client: Indigo Studios
Objective: Enhance longwall animation with dust and debris
Responsibilities: Creating smoke and debris
Software: 3ds Max, pFlow, V-Ray, After Effects

Process: Smoke sims were done with pFlow and dynamic debris sims were done with RayFire. Rendered in 3ds max and V-Ray

Additional Credits

Tony Hocevar: Animating, compositing
Sergey Poltavskiy: Lighting, surfacing
Micah Guy: Modeling, surfacing
Brandon Hall: Modeling, surfacing
Steve Dalton: Lighting, animating, compositing

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