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SFX Exercise #4 (& #3's Winner); Fire Me Up!
Topic Started: Jan 21 2006, 06:23 PM (2,316 Views)
TheEYE
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Hey Cel.... 15 minutes to midnight by my clock, that $5.00 can be payed via paypal man, thanks!Posted Image

Well this one was really hard to judge. The entries were unbelievable, but here goes...

There were some real quality submissions, but the three that really stood out were CantDraw, Cel, and Vectors entries.
While CantDraws was very eye pleasing to watch, and very well done indeed, it didnt have the technical complexity that Cel and Vec incorporated into their entries.
Cel's entry was amazing. At only 29k I am amazed that he not only completed the competitions required elements, but also included other effects elements to help round out his entry.
Vec's entry is beyond what I expected to see from an AS based effect, even coming from him. Weighing in at only 8k, it is a truly awesome combination of actionscript and animation.

So after much cursing and swearing and comparing of the two, I finally said screw it and we have a tie for this comp!
That gives Vec his first win in the SFX series and his first level banner:

And being as this is Cels second win in the series, he gets his butt guru-fied!


Congrats to both of ya! Excellent work!

And with that out of the way its time for the newest exercise to challenge your skills, or at least alleviate some boredom!
This time your challenge is to:

[size=14]Fire Me Up!![/size]

For this exercise you must depict a fire starting from a spark, and gradually growing into a full roaring blaze. What you want to burn, and how you go about it is as usual all up to your own discretion. However the base rules below must be adhered to:


Them Rules
:1: The core scene must show item(s) that will be burned.
:1: All entries can be animated with whatever program you choose to use, however final entries must be submitted as .swf.
:1: Screen size is to be set at 500 pixels wide by 300 pixels high.
:1: Animations MUST include a foreground and a background element.
:1: Final entries must be posted to this thread no later then Febuary 20th, 2006 to be eligible.

Judging will be based upon the best use of effects in order to create the scene as closely as described. Good luck to you all!

Them Prizes
Level 1 - The Effects Master


Level 2 - The Effects Guru


Level 3 - The Effects God




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Divine_Walrus
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Congrats guys :D Those are some awesomely low file sizes from both of you :gasp:
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jcpaid4me
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Sweet work Mates... I can't do fire but perhaps (since this is a learning competition) you guys could post frame by frame versions of your WIPs so we can all learn from it.
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Cel
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I am teh guru! Yay!

Congrats Vector!!!

All right! Time to set something on fire! Mmmmm.. I alredy know waht to do :D

Now, about those 5 dollars... :P


EDIT #2:

More updated! Not too sure about the sparks. :unsure:

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Vector
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Yays! Well done Cel, and good show Cantdraw!

I may or may not enter this month, unfortunately I'm getting back into the swing of work and it's my final year this year <_<
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Zwickel
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Jan 21 2006, 08:56 PM



Surprising as always :blink:
PD
Teach me :o
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Cel
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Thanks. :D


lol, what you wanna learn?


EDIT:

Here's today's progress.
Its FAR from done. I'd estimate I'm not even at 50%. :blink:

:1: The part where the power line disconnects will be more spectacular.
:1: Obviously, the flames and explosions are a sketch.
:1: Still alot of light effects to adjust.
:1: Gotta add smoke.
:1: No effect of a blast yet.
:1: A fire will start inside the building too.
:1: Loads of pieces of wrecked objects should be flying around.
:1: :gasp:

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holy molyfications!!! :o :o
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FLASH GENIUS (I wish...)
i just like said a very colorful sentence if you get my drift . . . thats freaking amazing cellular!!!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh what size wacom do u have btw?
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v507/small_lard/Fire.swf
(It runs slow because it's larger when not embedded in a window)
Not an actual entry, just a test. I probably spent about 20 seconds on the background, 10 seconds on each frame, 0 seconds on planning. It was a test to see how much I can rely brainlessly on filters. The answer: a lot.


I made the fire in white, blurred it. Made a yellow glow, and a red glow under that.
Hope this can help someone with their fire.
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Cel
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Who me? Wacom? lol. What wacom?

Jemooky, this sure makes fire look very nice.. But there's one problem. It lags like a 56.6Ker on a heavy Multiplayer FPS. Or something. :P

Looks good though!
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Zwickel
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I think that your animation is GREAT, Cel.
But I wonder something...wouldnt a gas station blow up like....have a big big big explosion?, or would it be like that.

Considering gasoline, I think you should mak the explosion a bit bigger.
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Jan 23 2006, 10:29 PM
Jemooky, this sure makes fire look very nice.. But there's one problem. It lags like a 56.6Ker on a heavy Multiplayer FPS. Or something. :P

I explained that. It's actually smaller than that when embedded, so it runs faster.
Plus, it's 12fps.

But there's no getting around the fact that three blur filters will bog down the flash player, but it can be done very, VERY well.


Oh, cell, I really like your gas station animation. You have a way of making animations look really slick.
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Cel
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Thanks everybody. :)

1) The explosion shouldnt be bigger, cause it wont fit the screen. This is just a sketch. There's alot to add.. Like smoke and flaming wreckage flying around.

2) Yes, its very well made. But the flash is set to Low - something I wouldnt do to my entry, cuase then the whole drawing will be wrecked.
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Woolf-gang
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Wow, Cel, you´re on the way to make a hattrick
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wow cel thats wiked ;) did you use a 3d program to draw the petrol station or did you just ge all the perspective right. Any way its really good and i cant wait to see the finished product. :D
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Cel
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Well, I did the fire... Now that I look at it... Posted Image




<_<
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wait.. i missed the part where it was bad i think :huh:


..someone want to uh.. tell me?
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Rufum Ru Sudily!
brillient, all brillient Cel, i like your two mooks! :D
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Cel
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Thanks.

Well, I did half an explosion. Still gotta do some flaming wreckage flying around.

Then 2 more.

And smoke.

:yfok:

Thats like 9 hours of work so far. :blink:

BTW, it might lag when everything explodes if you dont have a strong PC. Its the Brush's fault. I did it with high smoothing... The sketch, I mean.






Oh, and.. Is anyone else gonna compete here? It will feel kinda weird if I'll be the only one who submited anything. :P
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mooky did, man thats wicked Cel, you've worked well there.
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Mutey
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Looking good Cel!
Just a suggestion, I think the wire should fall faster, or speed up as it falls.

Keep going man.
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Cel
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Here's a tiny update.

I got my PC back.. So I gotta catch up on Gaming :P

But anyway, I got another explosion done today. :)

As for the wire.. Yeah, I guess I should :P I'll fix that some time in the future before the 20th


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hot work man!!! greatastic!
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cel im liking ur fire, but ur explosions last too, uh short. imean the actual explosion is supposed to b fast but the smoke shud gradually lift up and maybe mold that into a cycle.
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