Stand Alone Complex: Open Your Eyes Juneui Soh Advisor – Prof. Striegnitz

Stand Alone Complex Three characters’ journey about Human loneliness, finding his/her identity, and self-consciousness. We as human beings have different Way to think about who we are And what we think about our life

Particle System? and Why? :Thought process (think about a synapse) :Three different (distinct) environment :Interact with the footage (character) :computer generated graphics techniques - basic terms?

Distinctive particle system (simple)

Distinctive particle system (advanced)

How? :Maya’s embedded language called “MEL” Most tasks in Maya can be achieved through MEL :What MEL can do Customized UI Cycling work Computation art work

Generic Particle System in Maya :Simple emitter and particle :Preset effects – clouds, fire, hair, and etc However, :Doesn’t work properly….sometimes Organic shapes – shatter (surface tracing) Generalized emitter and particle (behavior)

Paint Effect Particle System (concept) :Particle system as a brush :Abstract particle system - easy to modify and control :Painter effect – preset brushes in Photoshop :User can draw a pre-programmed particle system - change values for variables :Example!

Paint Effect Particle System (pseudo code) :Create generic emitter and particle :Limit one emitter for few particles :Swap particles with target shape (spring) :Adjust particle’s character (generic) - conserve, distance btw particles, directions and etc :Simulate each frame -> store as a paint brush :Collision btw particles/ Depth sort for particles

Improved Shatter System (concept) :Shatter system? - once this shatter system hits the critical point, it becomes a particle system :Generic algorithm: perfectly works on planes - uses surface tracing algorithm on vertices - horrible at organic shapes - Speed - Shape

Right after using generic shatter System on a sphere each part of sphere generated by the generic shatter system Detail pictures of the problem

Improved Shatter System (concept) :Combine this concept with particle generating part! :Cutting plane!

Summary of other past work :Storyboard :Greenscreen - footages :Camera (HD – frame rate)

Future work (next term) :Post-production (VFX/Edit) - color correction - touch up on particle system - optical flare

Thanks a lot! :Any question?

Improved Shatter System (pseudo code) Generate first plane which cuts through the shape make sure plane is in the shape boundary Recurse: Generate random plane from previous plane get a norm of the plane check if n is bigger than the base case then cuts it make separate parts a particle (Maya generic) and keep recursing Base case: Flag >2^n AND n of last generated plane’s distance to a surface is < the shape’s size/7 (changeable) – avoid too small piece Generated particles to nCloth: nucleus node each volumic particle won’t overlap (rigidbody concept)