Well, I am no longer required to be working on the samurai character, but I find myself compelled to finish she/him/ it, the character really doesn’t have a gender as it is more elemental than anything.

Anyway, I’ve started to work on water arm concepts for its left arm within RealFlow. I must say, that is quite a piece of simulation software, I am amazed at the control and detail that you can acquire. I think I’ll be utilizing this in the future for sure.

This is my first ‘real’ work in RealFlow, besides just mucking around and getting something cool to appear. I actually went in there with a purpose this time and I am actually quite happy with the results, albeit they need revisions (doesn’t EVERYTHING in 3D though?) moving on. The water is a little thin and it doesn’t seem to hold together as well as I’d like, but I am really starting to get the idea of the Attractor Daemon, which is what causes it to congeal into a ball at the end, there is actually another Attractor Daemon just as the water jumps off of the ramp and flies into the air – you can just barely see it attract some water upwards and then it falls.

I found a very nice water shader for maya online – highend3d I think. I did quite a bit of tweaking in order to make it work for my scene though. I am very impressed at how streamlined this process is, I thought it was going to be quite chunky and time consuming, the longest part of course was generating the particles in RF (Simulation) but after that you export as a scene data sequence (.sd) you can import that directly into Maya and everything shows up. It’s really quite fluid in that manner. Then of course you have your normal 3D pipeline – texture / light / render / etc etc.

Well, here is the link for the video, I’m quite happy and I’ll definitely be doing revisions but for a first stab at it, I’m happy with it.

Video Link (Opens in a new window)