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I know this is very elementary stuff for most of the artists on this forum.
It is still cool, and I haven't seen and animated one posted yet.

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/13257987[/vimeo]

HD Version:
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/13344605[/vimeo]

I think it's really cool
what app did you do this in ?

Radiance

All Blender

very nice, can you explain more about how you made it?
it's been a while i've used blender for anything other than testing exports and checking models,
so i'm not aware of the latest cutting edge stuff like physics engines / particly systems, etc in blender.

Radiance

In Blender, I created a particle emitter. Then I substituted a cube instead of having it render particles. Using the emitter as a center-point, I created 3 vortex empties, to control the particle movement and a harmonic empty to bind it together, so particles don't go flying off the screen, but continue to churn near the origin. It took a while to get the "math" to work out right and generate a satisfactory result.
Then I used the export script from blender to octane, rendering at a fantastic 10 seconds per frame. (not including stopping and restarting the render because of the possible memory leak)
That, of course, results in a pile of still images.
I put those stills back into blender, and re-rendered the scene, using the z values and vector blurring to alter the original images. After compositing you have finished renders with motion blur. (I'm pretty sure this technique is well known, however, I had just figured it out!)
I used blender to organize them into an AVI movie and then uploaded.

thanks for sharing
enrico is looking into the memory leak issue with the blender script.

Radiance

That looks so epic!! ... which version of blender did u use? ... 2.49 or 2.5?

Thanks! 2.49.

I uploaded an HD Version (See top of thread)

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