How is this splatter created?

[Mylenium]

What ink splatter? This looks pretty much like cloud tank footage (filemd from below) which is something completely different and created e.g. by pouring saturated salty water or oil mixed with detergents into drinking water. You can create all these effects yourself with a camera, an aquarium tank, some black canvas and some simple lighting… If you really need ink splatter, proceed just the same. No particle system in the world can beat the simplicity of practical effects for this type of stuff.

Mylenium

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[Majorasshole]

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[Lars Bunch]

Hi,

Yeah, it looks like the “splatter” might have been done with a cloud tank. That said, if you don’t have a suitable camera for shooting cloud footage, Particular should be able to do the job, albeit with a somewhat different look. The advantage of shooting a cloud tank is it’s a lot less processor intensive.

It might be a good idea to experiment in Particular anyway and my guess is using some basic large smokelet particles for the main body of the “splatter” and then some small auxilary particles with some higher velocity and rotation to give some finer detail at the edges of the “splatter” might be a good way to start. (I haven’t actually tried this, so I don’t really know what I’m talking about, but that’s where I would start.)

It looks like the buildings and bus were done in a 3D animation system and output in spearate passes so that their alpha channels could be used to mask the color bleeds.

Hope this helps,

Lars

[Manny Rellesiva]

thanks for the advice