This is a short flight sequence I created for my upcoming 2d animation short I created.

I am in the middle of creating an epic 2D animation staring these two characters(Picture Above) Super Guy and Rocket Bear. So far I only have 54 drawings.

So for this project I created the effect of fire in Houdini. I had several reference parts for this project. I found several photos from Google. Also I found this podcast on Vimeo, which shows you how to create an explosion and it goes through all of the settings in the shop and using all the sliders. So for this project I basically followed what he was doing in the podcast. Until I realized about halfway in that he was using a fireball and not the regular fire we were using. So after that I just kept playing with all the sliders and nodes in the AutoDopNetwork. Mainly in the pyro solver and the pyro. After I rendered out my scene and brought it into Nuke and applied a blur node because it was coming out too crisp. 

This is my first project for Visual Effects 2. We had to simulate either fire or smoke using Maya Fluids. I decided to go very cartoony on this one. I wanted to recreate the iconic smoke out of your ears scene you see in a lot of cartoons. To do this I had to create one 3D container but two emitters, one for each ear. After I had both emitters created, it was just playing with all the settings to make it look good.

This is the Project 3 final for my Compositing and Scene Finishing class. We had to track the original video in Syntheyes and then bring it into Maya to attach it to the Helmet Rig. After doing that we had to bring the rendered images into Nuke and just basically play with a lot of the settings until you came out with something you liked.