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  • Underwater ripp[ling light effect

    Posted by Jamil Yamani on November 2, 2009 at 5:04 am

    Hi all

    I have been creating an underwater aquarium scene. I was wondering if anyone knew where I can catch a quick tutorial on a rippling caustic effect on the objects and the bottom (coral etc)?

    thanks
    jamil

    The Electric Canvas
    Large Format Projection Specialists
    Sydney, Australia

    Mark Suszko replied 16 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Michael Szalapski

    November 3, 2009 at 2:13 am

    There\’s a tutorial here on the COW about the caustics effect that covers what you\’re looking for. https://library.creativecow.net/articles/tierney_jim/caustics.php

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  • Jamil Yamani

    November 3, 2009 at 2:33 am

    Yes I have seen this before but I CAM POV is side on and underwater already. So its more like light rippling over coral underwater.

    thanks though
    jamil

    The Electric Canvas
    Large Format Projection Specialists
    Sydney, Australia

  • Mark Suszko

    November 3, 2009 at 8:44 pm

    What are you animating this in? Because what I think of first is to just grab a render of the caustic pattern in photoshop, treat it to have an alpha channel, and use it as an animated looping gel or a gobo and project it onto the scenery in a 3d cgi environment. Add volumetric fog effects to thicken up the water a little.

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