Creating an Ice Cream Bar Animation with Maya, RealFlow And AE – Part 3

Creating an Ice Cream Bar Animation with Maya, RealFlow And AE – Part 3

on Oct 2nd 2012 with 7 comments
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Hey folks, in this three part tutorial spanning both Cgtuts+ and Aetuts+, we’re going to create liquid chocolate pouring over a branded ice cream bar. To achieve this we will use Maya for mashing and rendering. RealFlow for the chocolate simulation. And finally in After Effects we’ll create the chocolate chunks and glow streak swoosh, as well as the final compositing.

Before you watch, check out Part 1 and Part 2.

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Part 7

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Part 8

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Ran Ben Avraham is post production artist working mainly in the fields of motion design and visual effects. He is a freelancer from Israel, and also runs http://ran-mograph.blogspot.co.il/, an AE templates website, designated for the visual effects industry.  

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  • Marten

    One word.. WOW!

    No some more. You did great on this one. Definitly gonna spend some hours rebuilding this one :)

  • conna

    Ran Ben,
    That was a great tutorial.
    Thanx for sharing.

  • http://ran-mograph.blogspot.co.il/ Ran Ben Avraham
    Author

    Marten & Conna,

    Thank you both for watching my tutorial.
    I’m glad you liked it.

  • http://www.AllRoundFist.com trent

    that was bad. your hiding the fact that you did’t know how to make the partials surround it and stay there so you just used the swosh to cover it, badly.

    ps, use a model the same shape but larger as the icecream’s container and have so the chocolate will be in and cant keep moving down. is will forma shell of choclate around the icecram

    • http://ran-mograph.blogspot.co.il/ Ran Ben Avraham
      Author

      Hey Trent,

      Thanks for the tip in the second part of your comment. it’s a good solution.

      I’m not sure where you where going with the first part of your comment – the chocolate swoosh came out as I planed it to (as well as the whole clip come to think about it), nothing short of that.
      perhaps you had a different design in your mind for it…

  • Josh

    Hey! This tutorial series was great! Very informative. Not only taught some great modeling and UV mapping techniques, but also exemplified an extremely professional and organized workflow. I’ve never used Realflow before, so I definitely learned a lot messing around with it. Here is my final product after following all of your tutorials:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2S7qVfK9RU&feature=youtu.be

    I think it came out pretty good, and the only thing I really would have changed would be having more chocolate pour onto the ice cream (I didn’t catch what frame you stopped emitting your particle flow, so in mine, it stopped a bit early and I didn’t go back to re-simulate). Anyway, very awesome tutorial, and I recommend people watch it because it not only teaches a lot about Realflow, it shows how to use different render passes out of Maya to have ultimate control of your render, and shows how to have a professional workflow out of After Effects.