MAYA FLUIDS TO PARTICLES & KRAKATOA MY 2.3 & PLEXUS 2

Hi everyone, 

In this tutorial i will show you; 

- How you can convert a Maya fluid to a particle system 
- How to use the new Magma Channel Editor that comes with new Krakatoa MY 2.3
- How to render with Krakatoa 
- How to export Maya particles to After Effects 
- How to use the new Plexus for AE with exported Maya particles  

Using these we will create a stunning fluid like plexus animation that can be used as Mograph, data visualization or anything you can imagine. 

Here is the final result:

Creating Waves Using Input Curves

Josh Clos has written a nice tutorial on creating waves in 3ds max using the ideas used in Imageworks' animated movie Surf's UP (http://www.joshclos.com/2013/09/28/3ds-max-tutorial-rigging-waves/
).

I tried to duplicate these ideas to be able to implement in Maya and possibly extend it a little further.

(For this tutorial i used a convexity map creating plug-in called r7_vertCurvature. You can get it here:http://www.trisoup.net/shtuff/scripts/r7_vertCurvature.zip )

african tribe warrior

An african tribe young warrior with white mask on his face. i think im gonna complete the body
drawing another time

sunny

a vector a day. he's there to keep your day shiny and warm :)

A vector a day keeps creativity alive

Ok. decided to add one vector drawing everyday which will help me to keep the pace going on. Today's vector is a cute droid inspired by android robot.

BEST CG GIRL EVER

Ok. this is awesome. best cg girl i ever seen in my life i guess. Credit goes to David Moratilla and even more, he was kind enough to do a "making of" of this hottie :). You may check the making of here: http://www.davidmoratilla.com/CloseUpPortraits_MakingOf1.html.

I'M ALIVE !!!!

Ok this blog is officially alive from now on. Would love to stay here and chat but really need to figure out a way to embed the swf flash files to my blog. Until then listen to this...